Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...formation of a University wind ensemble apart from the Harvard Band was a wise move, as the Harvard Wind Ensemble's first concert made very clear in the quality of the players it presented. But the concert also showed that the group has yet to become an integrated ensemble that holds faithfully to serious (and also good) music...
Grammarwise, it is permissible to tailfin any word with the suffix meaning "in the manner of." Estheticswise, it is deplorable-businesswise, dollarwise, saleswise and weathering are all barbarisms that deserve to be barred. And now with a word to the wise comes an equally formidable enemy: ness, denoting "state, quality or condition." It is not the friendly suffix of greatness, goodness, loveliness (properly forming abstract nouns from adjectives) or even Loch Ness, but a whole new invasion of language spotted by Professor Dorothy N. Foote of California's San Jose State College...
...Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price. This wise, skillful first novel about a Carolina country girl's attempts to keep both her fiance and her virtue is marred only by an occasional too-swooping bow toward William Faulkner...
Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) are the whilom heroes of a gay, grotesque little novel by the late Henri Pierre Roché, now made into a gay, grotesque little movie by France's François Truffaut (The 400 Blows). Charming, sick, hilarious, depressing, wise: the film is an exercise in contradiction, a clutter of inconsequence transformed by imagination as a trash heap is transformed by moonlight...
...Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price. The story of a Carolina country love for a young man who often seems to love motorcycles more makes a wise and tender first novel...