Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plot of his latest novel. When the words will not come, he resorts to a form of inspiration that is not new in the writing game-although his name for it is: he goes on a brief, illicit sexual romp he calls a fête. His worldly-wise wife Léone ("I have made love with many men") indulges his impulses. When Lucie, who adores bop records and Duc's novels, arrives at the novelist's villa outside Paris, Due gets set for a fête. Since all French triangles are parallelograms, Lucie brings...
This is not, of course, a tocsin for bigoted anti-Catholicism (opposing Catholics more than necessary). But Americans would be unusually wise to recognize that mentioning religion, or measuring the anti-Catholic vote, is more than stirring bias. Commentary on religion can be sheer blind paranoia, but it can also be a realistic acknowledgement that belief matters in politics: less, perhaps than allegiance to Moscow, but quite a lot more than commitment to Barry Goldwater or Eleanor Roosevelt...
...replied. Sokolov said his region had boosted meat production, but 3,000,000 sheep had died for lack of feed. Unaccountably, Khrushchev said nothing. But when Sokolov said his region planned to raise hogs for a market weight of 110 kilograms (242 lbs.), the boss broke in. "Is it wise to push them up to 110 kilograms? That is too much. Ninety kilograms is the most effective weight for bacon." Sokolov: "You are right." That took care of that...
...family, Cuba's No. 1 Wise Man had a questionable gift. At a meeting in Havana, a claque of well-rehearsed sugar growers voted to abolish the long-established Cuba Cane Growers' Association and to condemn one man who spoke out against the move. The man was Castro's older (36) brother, Sugar Grower Ramón Castro, who helped the revolution with funds but has been increasingly critical of its recent course. The meeting derided Ramón Castro for "utilizing the name of the Prime Minister." And it urged jail for members...
...mistake both for you and for me"). Bobby had defenders too ("There is no doubt," said the Denver Post, "of Robert Kennedy's competence or zeal to do his job"), and even conservative Columnist David Lawrence, swallowing hard, was not as outraged as expected: "Whether the appointment was wise politically . . . will be discussed pro and con for some time to come." Asked the Boston Record: "Why anticipate controversy? Bob Kennedy is not a controversy until and unless he botches his duties-an eventuality that would be most un-Kennedylike." The press might still have its misgivings about Kennedy family...