Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author of The Invisible Man turns his attention to the situation of the Negro in America, but is wise enough to reject easy solutions or histrionic demands...
...frank, serious, yet sensitive "film" (not movie) about the moral dilemmas which confront today's college generation. It does its best to avoid some of the customary embarassing cliches. For instance, when the girl lets it be known that she's pregnant, her mother crinkles her sad but wise eyes and says, "You love him very much, don't you?" instead of calling the police. And the abortionist turns out to be a prosperous-looking physician instead of the usual touchless crone with a bent coat-hanger...
...anybody who has ever bought books at the beginning of a term can testify, the Coop was wise in its decision to build a bigger textbook annex. It was incredibly foolish, however, to believe that it could build an annex and then ignore the problems of bringing books into...
...Invisible Government, Wise and Ross...
...Wisdom. Despite all those problems, LAFTA could still make considerable progress if it were really willing to try. Mexico, for example, has increased its LAFTA trade fourfold since 1960, figures that it could buy still ten times more from the area. And if LAFTA wants proof of what wise action can accomplish, it need only observe the separate four-year-old Central American Common Market, whose five small members faced even greater disadvantages. They have drastically lowered tariffs across the board and started several regional organizations. Now they are talking about common currency, transportation, education projects...