Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appraisal: Dean's unassuming appearance is largely an illusion. He is a shrewd man, wise in the folkways of Washington. He knows how to cope with aggressive lobbyists, arrogant Senators and predatory rivals in Government...
...working conditions for them, more skill in production, less waste in consumption, and as a last resort-that old popular refrain, help from the U.S. This week in Paris, the Council of Ministers of 18 Western nations will gather for an emergency session on coal. Unless their experts make wise and bold plans, Europe's dependence on U.S. coal will remain "shocking...
...Deep Problem. What is the right answer to the seething problem of the Middle East? It is much easier to see past U.S. mistakes, sins of omission and commission, than to plot a wise and firm future course. The U.S. success in Turkey, gratifying as it is, does not give much guidance on Western policy in the Arab countries and in Iran. Turkey had passed through a drastic process of modernization which in most of the Moslem world is still to come. But the U.S. cannot wait for Kemal Atat¨urks who are not in sight...
...prospective stepparents. Heflin suffers pratfalls at the hands of Patricia's boys and an embarrassing visit from an old flame (Virginia Field). Patricia, goaded by jealousy and split loyalties, is wooed by the head counselor (Richard Denning). It appears that widower may lose widow, but the children, ever wise in grown-up ways, trick their parents into getting together again...
...stock cleric of the sort Balzac rolled off his nib, but the full-length portrait of a weak, well-meaning man of the world, truckling where he has to, lording it where he can, glad to do a kindness if you'll wait till after supper, parish-wise and heaven-foolish all day long. The wicked nun is not simply wicked, but a believable wretch who got that way partly through her own vanity, partly because she was hideously tricked by her father into a life she had no call for. Manzoni's novel has sizable literary faults...