Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Basso Norman Scott, as Columbus' inner nature and conscience, stood slightly behind him. Soprano Dorothy Dow, as Queen Isabella, entered through the orchestra whenever she had a solo. Met Baritone John Brownlee, as the Narrator, stood on a high platform at the left, and various Officers, Creditors and Wise Men sang from steps on the right...
Oberjohann submits that the elephants even have a secret service of wise old elephants that spy on human activity over a wide area. All information so gathered is "discussed," sometimes for rumbling hours on end, in a herd council, until "agreement" is achieved-occasionally by a resort to force on the part of the majority...
George Fischer, former director of the Ford Foundation's East European Fund and a student in Russia for 11 years before World War II, says in his "Soviet Opposition to Stalin": "At present the U.S.S.R. is far better geared, not only militarily but also geographically and propaganda-wise than it was against the German surprise attack...
...tumble-down cottage in Los Angeles' Brentwood section, Mullican leads the life of a happy bachelor. His steady companions are three wise-looking Siamese cats, and he spends his time painting in his personal stratosphere. Sometimes it seems a lot more interesting than the world down below. Says he: "You might call my paintings landscapes of the mind. Anything can happen; there can be caves in space, or mountains in the sky, or stars on the ground. It's rather like playing God, myself...
...Casey declares that he would like 1,000 years of life "to encircle [the peoples of the world] with his arms like a girdle encircling the waist of a motherly woman," the reader can only feel that even if Providence permitted the embrace, the world would be wise to wriggle...