Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evidence, in part, of Lotte Lehmann's musicianship are the musical friends she has made. Toscanini attends all her recitals. She is Bruno Walter's favorite singer. The now wise and settled Farrar invites her to her country home in Ridgefield, Conn. A fan Lehmann uses in Der Rosenkavalier is a treasured talisman. Farrar carried it in her glamorous days...
...lacks the sophistication which Author Ferenc Molnar wrote into his play from which it was derived, it is all the more amusing because of the omission. An example of Hollywood's newly discovered ability to scour without scratching, it emerges as a slight comedy which is no less wise for being less cynical and one which is performed with exactly the right blend of nervousness and imperturbability by all the members of its cast. Good shot: Herr Konrad giving his order for supper to Luisa's waiter, who thinks she has no business in a private dining room...
...story of The Iron Mother is told by a wise peasant who has been Marlise's admirer and Aime's friend. His complete acceptance of the French way of doing things, of French values, may be what constitutes the "wholesomeness" of the book; at any rate, he never goes out of his way to lecture Marlise for her avarice. If it had not ruined Aime, he would have regarded it as normal...
Terming the legislative authorization for pari-mutuel betting on horse and dog-racing as "politically and socially disturbing," the Harvard Teachers Record appearing today asks "wise leadership" in the classroom in the hope of "more stringent laws regulating or prohibiting lotteries, slot machines, and all games of chance...
...strong case can be made for keeping the Latin requirement for the A.B. degree, but only by keeping our nostalgic eyes dry and considering it on its own merit as a discipline and as a literature will a wise decision be possible...