Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performed. Bedford, the only holdover from the Broadway cast, is the perfect mouse-funny when he squeaks, staggering when he roars. Whenever she is onscreen, Actress Sommars matches him laugh for laugh, and Farentino with never a false step leads the spectator to the clear-eyed conclusion of this wise little comedy: people who use people are the loneliest people in the world...
...held personally liable, for example, since the theory is that big auto companies can take out insurance against defective design and spread the cost among hundreds of thousands of purchasers, each of whom is charged a few more cents for his new car. In addition, today's wise manufacturer ignores his own heady advertising and urges customers to return defective products for repairs, thus giving him the information he needs to improve designs and avoid suits...
...American Negro writer has approached the comic posture that Chinua Achebe has achieved toward his own people. His book is worth a ton of documentary journalism. Indeed, he has shown that a mind that observes clearly but feels deeply enough to afford laughter may be more wise than all the politicians and journalists...
Then came the nuptial blessing: May this yoke that she is taking on herself be one of love and peace. May she be faithful and chaste, marrying in Christ, and may she always imitate the holy women. May she be beloved of her husband, as was Rachel; wise, as was Rebecca; long-lived and loyal, as was Sara. Faithful to one embrace, may she flee from unlawful companionship. May she be grave in her modesty, honorable in her chastity, learned in the teachings of heaven...
...TIME'S cover story, "The Command Generation," [July 29] is brilliant and penetrating. The writer is knowledgeable and wise . . . and I have a bone to pick with...