Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CALL OFF THAT BOMB! screamed London's Laborite Daily Herald. The Manchester Guardian asked, in reference to U.S. plans for another test shot in late April: "Is it really wise to proceed with these explosions?" In the House of Commons, the Laborites used the bomb as a new political weapon on their old target, the U.S. And Prime Minister Churchill, in the most solemn tone, assured a hushed House of Commons that the "overwhelming consequences of development ... fill my mind out of all comparison with anything else...
...Cherry Lane Theater (capacity 200) has a mildly successful play in Paul Vincent Carroll's The Wise Have Not Spoken. "Business is 100% over last year's," says one Cherry Laner. "They have begun to take off-Broadway seriously...
...ideals are compromised . . . For him, success and failure are byproducts; the real job is witness. In that he has his joy. He sows as well as he can; maybe God will give the increase; that is His responsibility. Thus he works with the strain off. It is sometimes wise to remember that there is such a thing as Christian nonchalance. Maybe there is room for a new beatitude: 'Blessed are the debonair,' in whom the Word of God sparkles with graciousness and charm...
Harvard University seems to have some excellent young deans, with a great deal more sense than the wise, old, old men who this year are running the CRIMSON and who in a few more years no doubt expect to be running the nation, the Watch and Ward Society and the W.C.T.U. Obviously, if the Editors of the CRIMSON or any other people feel unwilling or unable to enjoy themselves at an affair like the Smoker, they don't have to come! The nature of the Smoker was well known to everyone before-hand, and those who came intending to have...
...dialogue, stressing unexpected humor, the incongruous wise-crack, is almost as heroic in spots as the palmists bits of derring-do in earlier Bogart pieces. Jennifer Jones, with blonde hair and a sometimes British accent, accounts for much of the dialogue in situations. As a woman who, while not exactly a liar, "relies more on her imagination than on her memory," she keeps the verbal stew bubbling with a series of fantastic stories. But the authors are kind to all the actors, and everyone has his share of marvelous lines...