Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject is the duty of the citizen to cooperate in government. He has no option to say, "I do not approve of this Grand Jury or that Congressional Committee; I dislike its members and its objectives; therefore I will not tell it what I know." He is neither wise nor legally justified in attempting political protest by standing silent when obligated to speak. The citizen is ordinarily required, when summoned, to give testimony to a court, legislative committee or other body vested with subpoena power, and if he refuses to do so he is punishable. Subpoena power has proved necessary...
...before . . ." No, he couldn't say what he and Ike might talk about. "I've no idea. It's to be just a private, informal conversation between old friends." Would he, perhaps, ask for more U.S. aid? "Trade, not aid," answered the Prime Minister, "is the wise policy." The old man suddenly turned sharp when a reporter recalled that recently the Prime Minister spoke of the chances of war subsiding: "I made no such statement. I said the chances of war have receded. There's quite a difference." Churchill said that resistance to Communist aggression...
...found in America, which was brought up to believe in boundlessness. America's very geography, said Stein, is "an invitation to wander." With these ideas ringing in his mind, Wilder wrote Our Town. One of the first people he showed it to was his friend Edward Sheldon, the wise father-confessor of the theater. "Of course," said Sheldon, "you have broken every law of playwriting. You've aroused no anticipation. You've prepared no suspense. You've resolved no tensions." Sheldon was right. Our Town had no scenery, and only a hint of a plot...
...president of a $300 million corporation, the president of Harvard cannot often concern himself no directly with faculty affairs. The University's problems often resolve into financial once, and over the years Conant has become a wise and even a bit cynical about the whole problem. No hand shaking fund-raiser himself, he greatly appreciated the need for such...
...citizen) is neither wise nor legally justified in attempting political protest by standing silent when obligated to speak," the pair hold...