Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mecca of study is the Backer Library, whose lone tower sticking up out of the wilderness symbolizes the School. In the lower floor of these storehouses of wise words is a reading room full of monstrous murals-monstrous both in size and content...
...good wing. After watching Youmans play with the varsity Monday, varsity coach Bruce Munro thought he looked very promising. Bill Cowperthwaite at inside right has been a good team player and makes excellent passes. He is fast, but only for short sprints. Like other freshman center forwards. Dave Wise, although very aggressive, has the tendency to get sucked back into the play instead of staying upfield...
...weeks, moviegoers in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles have been crowding to see La Ronde, a French film that took prizes in three European film festivals. Like moviegoers in London, where the picture is flourishing in its sixth month, they seem to like what they see: an audacious, worldly-wise comedy of sex. In both U.S. cities, the film drew cheers from the critics-and not a murmur of protest from any guardian of the public morals. But last week wicked old New York, which almost always gets first crack at a foreign movie, had still not seen La Ronde...
...wise, kindly, rather sad face and a completely relaxed presence make Bechet a pleasure to watch as well. Born in New Orleans, he migrated to Chicago with his contemporaries in the Twenties. But commercial success did not come to him as it did to the "orthodox" of the Joe Oliver camp. Perhaps his fondness for France cost him his share in the proceeds from the enthusiastic public acceptance of jazz. Whatever the reasons, it is still Armstrong who gets thousands for appearances at the vast showplaces and theatres, while Bechet plays at the far smaller Storyville, in the Hotel Buckminster...
...Committee was formed, Ryan said, to help the voters make "wise choices" in this year's City Council and School Committee elections. It will "guide those who don't know what everyone should know about the candidates." He added that the Boston Committee's choices were made on the basis of questionnaires sent to the candidates, and that members of the Committee had made an extensive study of their records before giving them an endorsement...