Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Help. Clearly, a revocable living trust may be a wise move for those able to fund it-for example, people who own their own businesses or substantial stockholdings. But what of today's typical corporate executive, who may control relatively little tangible property? Affluent as he seems, most of his wealth may be locked in group life insurance and deferred retirement benefits. To name his wife as beneficiary may overwhelm her with unaccustomed financial problems, but to set up a trust in his will consigns her to probate...
...interesting to note that at this juncture the stolid Geistgauge sounded a small ding of pleasure. There was, so as it knew -- and it is all wise--no vairy whatsoever, recorded or otherwise traditional or recent, between Stough and Holworthy. There was, in fact, rivalry between any two Freshman dorms, or any two upperclass House. The Freshman's comment was therefore at the highest pitch of spontaneity...
ITEM: Three dead people were given posthumous Emmys. I want you to know that I think of this as last resort, but one way or another, this network will win more awards, posthumous or otherwise. A word to the wise...
...Wise Men in Newport. La Farge belonged to the genteel tradition. Born in 1835, the son of a Napoleonic soldier of fortune, he was brought up in the aristocratic red-brick atmosphere of New York's Washington Square. At 21, he was sent to Paris, where he studied briefly with the academician Thomas Couture, then hunted down the greatest old masters from Copenhagen to Dresden...
...same route that Monet, slightly his junior in age, was to follow to perfection. In practice, La Farge is more similar to that French loner, Puvis de Chavannes, who also introduced mythological subject matter into naturalistic settings. La Farge, for instance, thought nothing of depicting The Halt of the Wise Men in 1878 with a recognizable Newport, R.I., background...