Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barring Sir Winston, Alastair Sim is the top performer in Britain today. If Alec Guinness fans disagree, they need only attend Folly to be Wise. The film itself suffers from unwarranted moralizing and an ill-constructed plot, but Sim's agreeable eccentricity equals and sometimes surpasses anything Guinness has done...
...Kansas and Oklahoma, officials calmly said that they expected segregation to be ended with little trouble. In Texas, Governor Allan Shivers said that his state will comply, but that it might "take years" to work out the details. From Virginia's Governor Thomas Stanley came a quiet, wise reaction. He carefully read the full opinion, then told reporters: "I shall call together . . . representatives of both state and local governments to consider the matter and work toward a plan which will be acceptable to our citizens and in keeping with the edict of the court. Views of leaders of both...
...could be no freedom in his country until the Communists were defeated. He was not dissuaded or sidetracked by taunts that he was a U.S. puppet or a victim of colonialism. He fought with all the arms he could get-from the U.S. or anywhere else, and with a wise program of social and economic reform. Magsaysay won because he fought. He was not enchanted when the Reds pulled their standard ruse of asking for negotiation and coalition when they got in trouble. He made a personal-but no political-deal with Taruc. And Taruc, his forces beaten and scattered...
Wrapping the. tattered cloak of experience about them, the British stepped forward in the role of the honest broker and wise counselor. Question was: Can a man be an honest broker to a bad bargain? The broker's solution for the rot infecting Indo-China was partition of the country. That solution the British hoped to get at Geneva. Until they got it, or it proved impossible to get, they refused to discuss the future. "Our immediate task is to do everything we can to reach an agreed settlement at Geneva for the restoration of peace in Indo-China...
This is not a severe request; considering town feeling, it is a wise one. But while the boys are perfectly happy to have their parties in the fraternities, the girls are not. College regulations forbid its girls to drink, and it is difficult to break this regulation on campus. This has led to the double punch bowl problem and 14-mile trips across the State line to freer New York...