Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critic's chair is more often remembered for being bright than right, waspish than wise. Playwright Jean Kerr recently recalled that she rankled for ten years over a barbed line in a Kronenberger review of her first play, Jenny Kissed Me: "Leo G. Carroll brightens up Mrs. Kerr's play in much the same way that flowers brighten a sickroom." Then there was the hapless actor who was commended for "playing his role up to the hilt except that he had no sword." Wit can be instant wisdom. Kronenberger's first clever words on a playwright have...
...last meeting the Corporation withheld approval so that construction estimates could be examined more closely. The President and Fellows found that building estimates far exceeded what they had planned to spend. This second delay is, of course, also disappointing, but the Corporation is wise in holding its approval until it has a fair and reasonable estimate. In view of some of the extravagances and blunders evident in University buildings, it is heartening to have the University concerned with getting a straightforward appraisal and efficient...
...were very grateful for the background information given to us, which was sound and very helpful. Knowing the situation, we have not been too harsh on the embassy, which was just as embarrassed as we were. This penny-wise seminar could have done a lot of harm in any other country than Holland. America should realize that it is terribly hard to catch trout with just bread crumbs, especially when other countries know exactly what trouts like...
...trying to whip up support for his "human investment" program, in which "volunteers" on the Chinese model are supposed to spend their idle hours building highways and schools. But being Guineans, the human investors do more dancing and laughing than shoveling, for hard work is neither traditional nor wise in the West African...
American wariness about Britain's proposed entry into the Common Market is made explicit in an economic argument: If the U.K. joined the Common Market, her colleagues in the 'Outer Seven' would do like-wise, and the United States would find itself squeezed out of a unified European market. Inclusion of Britain in the EEC, it is argued, will therefore be economically disadvantageous to the United States...