Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term egghead was, if I gather rightly, originally intended to be a bit derogatory, indicating a capacity for and a preoccupation with mental activity of a particular kind, limited in its scope, and by no means resulting in an orderly process of thought capable of producing wise decision, nor of envisaging constructive and adequate planning for this nation's life, liberty and happiness. Alger Hiss is an egghead, Whittaker Chambers is an egghead, with a latent streak of common sense. There are all kinds of eggheads-neurotic, paranoiac, schizophrenic. There are also harmless and normal eggheads, including...
...thought that the Senate would refuse to confirm him.* The Ohio Senator's colleagues in Congress failed to provide any choral background for his solo. Vermont's Senator George D. Aiken, who will rank next to Chairman Taft on the Labor Committee, thought it was "wise to recognize organized labor in the Cabinet." Several Taft-minded Senators, e.g., Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, swung behind New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, rather than Taft, for Majority Leader...
AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS (89 pp.)-Gian-Carlo Menotti-McGraw-Hill ($2.75). A fine book version of the story Composer Menotti wrote for his TV Christmas opera last year (TIME, Dec. 31), in which a crippled shepherd boy adds his crutch to the gifts of the Three Wise...
Died. Margaret Wise Brown, 42, best-selling author of childrens' books (more than 60 in 15 years) under various pen names (Golden MacDonald, Timothy Hay); of complications following an appendectomy; in Nice, France. Author Brown did much of her work in a deserted old house on the Maine coast liked the challenge of writing for five-year-olds because she thought they were at the height of their sensory awareness...
Trouble or not, business men are anticipating, revenue-wise, the biggest weekend of the year. Restaurants will be jammed. As Cronin said, "We seat 350, but we probably will have to squeeze in 400." The Oxford Grille said it will double its staff. Reservations at the Barclay have been pouring in for four weeks. F.N. Cardullo, manager at the Wursthaus, said, "We'll just have to take it as it comes...