Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Starting his 30th year as a history instructor, Colonel Bishop,* at 58, is wise enough to know that one well-communicated idea can stimulate more thinking than an hour packed with cotton-wool fact. To that end, he asks his cadets to find parallel situations between current world affairs and what they have learned in history studies...
...vaudeville in one jump. His first wife, a beautiful ex-burlesque soubrette named Mercedes Delpino, was his straight woman. LAHR AND MERCEDES, read big newspaper ads, A RIOT OF MIRTH AND IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY. He bought a Packard car and tailored suits, and dreamed of Broadway. "Bert," said the Broadway wise guys, "you're too burlesquey." But in 1927 he got his break. An ex-vaudevillian named Harry Delmar put a revue on Broadway, and asked Lahr to bring his cop act in. Delmar's Revels ran only 16 weeks-and part of the time it existed only because...
Crisply directed by Robert Wise from a script by Edmund H. North, the movie is no sermon or diatribe. It makes its points with all the tang and suspense of a good adventure yarn. It has its rough spots in story-and no doubt in scientific -logic, but these are effectively smoothed over by the realism of actual Washington backgrounds, expert technical effects and the presence of such radio news commentators as Drew Pearson, Elmer Davis and H. V. Kaltenborn, chattering away in the familiar accents of crisis...
...however, the nation now seems used to this type of testimony, as absurd and unfair as the accusations are. The country does not expect the Committee to call the maligned teachers to testify. Nor does it expect to see any actual criminal charges brought against the accused. Although wise thinkers and reputable jurists alike have deplored this ritual, we are no longer surprised when the ceremony goes...
Diplomatic Save. Lovett was one of many Wall Streeters (foremost: James Forrestal) who did outstanding work for Franklin Roosevelt during World War II. Wise old Henry Stimson, F.D.R.'s Republican Secretary of War, drafted Lovett as Assistant Secretary of War for Air in 1941. The smooth-working, selfless Stimson team, which included Lovett and Chief of Staff George Marshall, became a legend of administrative efficiency and warm mutual loyalty...