Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glumly Jack selects a Cuban cigar from his humidor. He is afraid to smoke cigars in public lest he look like a "wise guy." Pipes too have been forced into the privacy of his home since Marlboro cigarettes became one of the show's sponsors. Wandering aimlessly once more, like a man in search of work, Jack walks into the living room and picks up a newspaper. "What the hell can I say about the new women's hemlines?" he asks sadly. "I've already advised them to have their knees lowered...
Nevertheless, Stepmother Kay determines that Sandra shall go overboard for a suet-mouthed Guardsman, despite the fact that he is much adored by Kay's best friend's wallflower daughter. (Coos Kay: "I do think she's wise not dancing all the time.") Instead, Sandra obstinately falls for a bounder (John Saxon). "First of all," says a friend in explaining Saxon's shortcomings, "he's half Italian." Second of all, he plays the drums in a society orchestra, and third, he is given to vividly detailed descriptions of African fertility dances...
...Goldwyn's bland statement hides a story of deceit and calumny. In a suit which I propose to file, it will be necessary at long last to expose his publicity greed, his professional hypocrisy and selfishness." Mamoulian's examples: Goldwyn insisted that he be "identified publicity-wise as the sole creator of Porgy and Bess, and thereupon he ordered me to discharge my public relations counselor"; he "characterized himself as 'a powerful man,' whose enmity or displeasure could ruin me economically or professionally...
...help out the now friendly Iraq government. For Egypt, which has more teachers than it can use (the University of Cairo turns out huge classes of B.A.s each year, and there are too few schools to provide posts for all of them), the openhanded export of learning is a wise investment. Mideast observers reckon that Nasser's schoolmasters are more effective propagandists than the screaming Cairo radio...
...propaganda efforts go, Nasser's have been hugely successful. His teachers had infiltrated Jordan and Lebanon before governments in those countries got wise and started throwing them out. In Kuwait, said a British businessman, "there isn't a pro-Western child of school age left...