Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conscience can condone a policy which puts supreme emphasis on saving your own skin without regard for the plight of your neighbor," he said. "Justice, mercy and brotherly love do not cease to operate, even in the final apocalypse." Most Christians would probably recall the Biblical parallel of the wise and foolish virgins-and draw their own inference...
...chopped to fit the busy businessman's crowded schedule. "Kiplinger does for the executive," says Bernard Gallagher, "what the Reader's Digest does for the peasant." Much newsletter forecasting is done in the vague language of fortunetellers, and no newsletter turns out the double-edged style, the wise guess that can be read both ways, more assiduously than Kiplinger's Washington Letter...
Hollywood's Dr. Kildare, Raymond Massey falls far shy of Lionel Barrymore as the wise old teaching physician, Dr. Gillespie; and Intern Kildare, as played by Richard Chamberlain, suggests nothing so much as an oversized white rabbit with a stethoscope instead of a watch...
...fiction in this Mosaic is a sort of modern midrash of Jacob, by Arthur Gold. One of the lovely things about this kind of playing with Biblical myths is that, after the game's over, the Bible still remains. In this case, Jacob emerges intact after Mr. Gold's wise use of him to represent the dual spirit of the Jews: "Jacob," the grasping, shrewd Jew folk-hero, and "Israel," the man who wrestles with God. I suppose Gold is right, but I always thought Jacob had more of the former in him--particularly the way his troubles in finding...
Present CCA power resides in the Mayor, Edward A. Crane '35; and in Councilors Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, Cornelia B. Wheeler, and Pearl K. Wise, all Council veterans. In its attempt to secure two new seats, the CCA may very well unseat one or more of its own veterans, only to replace him with a novice...