Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Dream. While the programs are familiar and well publicized in their broad outlines, most people except those directly affected do not know the details in all their dizzying ramifications. How Uncle Sam turned into Big Daddy is delineated in The Encyclopedia of U.S. Government Benefits (William H. Wise & Co.; $9.95), whose revised edition, incorporating Lyndon Johnson's new measures approved by the 89th Congress, is coming off the presses this week. Part of the publisher's purpose is to help people find out about Government benefits they could rightfully claim but often pass up. In a larger...
CONVERSATIONS WITH BERENSON, recalled by Count Umberto Morra, translated by Florence Hammond. The late Bernard Berenson, the American critic who trained his eye on Italian Renaissance art and his tongue in the art of conversation, was both wise and wise guy when discussing painting, disseminating gossip, or commenting on life. Count Morra, one of Berenson's frequent guests, fortunately took notes...
...Wise Guy. Berenson's anecdotes were always redoubtable, included the familiar Wilde story: "Having very clearly failed to meet some commitment, Oscar telegraphed: T cannot come. Lie follows.' " His aphorisms were provocative. "The first in a flock is still a sheep...
...Businessmen definitely are not letting me down," said Connor, who once warned that if he failed businessmen would "find a professor sitting in my chair." Connor insisted: "I was for the voluntary program all the way, and I still feel it is the right approach. Mandatory controls are not wise or warranted...
...unlike many of his fellow philosophes, Voltaire was large-minded enough to realize what the end of faith meant, and wise enough to have no undue optimism about the nature of man without God. "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him," goes one of Voltaire's best-known epigrams. Less well-known is his balancing phrase, "but all nature cries out to us that he does exist." Nothing summed up Voltaire's puckish, often contradictory private honesty more than an incident in his 80th year. Overwhelmed by the beauty of a hilltop sunset...