Word: wised
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sociology professor at the University of Arizona, is best known for books, columns and articles that people read simply because they are readable. On practically any topic, Greeley manages to strike some readers as outrageously unfair and others as eminently fair, as left wing and right wing, as wise and wrongheaded. More often than not, he is stunningly on target. Greeley's latest confection is Everything You Wanted to Know About the Catholic Church but Were Too Pious to Ask (Thomas More Press, $7.95). Greeley simply took 101 words or phrases germane to Catholicism, ranging from Abortion to Wealth...
Hierarchy. "If the American Catholic clergy and laity are satisfied to be governed in some considerable part by mitred pinheads, then they deserve such leadership ... There are, of course, many able, intelligent, spiritually wise bishops...
...believe that the Shah is the very wise and powerful leader we need, and I support him strongly...
...Ayckbourn's words. Now, through PBS's Great Performances series, The Norman Conquests has a second chance to make good in the U.S.?and this time it surely will. In its TV incarnation (produced in England), The Norman Conquests is not only funny but impossibly wise about sex, marriage, love and loneliness...
Director Herbert Wise (I, Claudius) is keenly sensitive to the nuances of the writing; there isn't a broad moment in the entire 5½ hours. The cast could not be better. Richard Briers is particularly dexterous as a foolish, henpecked husband whose chummy manner does not entirely hide a disappointed heart. So is Penelope Wilton as the spinsterish sister who is most touchingly desperate for affection...