Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...described as "all kinds of hilarious adventures." Helping him to make a chump of himself are his wife, Barbara Billingsley, and the inevitable two children (Ted Marc and Beverly Washburn). As a psychologist, Dunne advises other fathers how to deal with their children but, naturally, it takes his all-wise wife to set him right on how to handle...
...story holds pretty true to Orwell. Manor Farm is run by a drunken brute named Jones. One day the animals, incited by a wise old Middle White boar, revolt and drive Jones out. The pigs, being the most intelligent of the animals, assume the leadership of a communal democracy based on the precept: All Animals Are Equal. The most prominent pigs are Snowball and Napoleon. Napoleon drives Snowball off the farm and seizes absolute power. As time goes by, the pigs get to look more and more like people until at last, as Orwell put it, "it was impossible...
...West Coast Lumbermen's Association, "is to get the idea across to the little guys. They can realize $25 an acre every year by tree farming, more than they can make by putting the same land into pasture." Those who have tried it agree. Says one timber-wise farmer, who tree-farms 180 acres in Washington's Lewis County: "For years we struggled to clear this land for pasture and crops . . . Finally, the timber company told us to get wise and harvest timber as a crop. In the last ten years I've harvested...
...wise to take a bold stand on German rearmament," said William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History and former assistant for intelligence to the Secretary of State, in reversing his former position...
...British moviemakers were wise enough to stick to what they do best-the "little picture" that costs around ?150,000 ($420,000). During the year the British released in the U.S. two superb little farces (Genevieve and High and Dry}, another almost their equal (The Final Test), and a picture about childhood (The Little Kidnappers) that catches the radiance and anguish of life's morning in frames of quiet poetry. At year's end, too, came a somewhat fuddled but heartfelt and intelligent adaptation of Graham Greene's novel The Heart of the Matter...