Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humorless Cry-Baby." For a few other newspapers that carped at the Hays-Coffin findings, the Ottawa Journal had only mock-serious despair. "The trouble, apparently, is that some stroke of cruel misfortune has placed Canadians, wise, virtuous, altruistic, full of grace, all but perfect in their thoughts, acts and general conduct, alongside a people who are imperfect, who lack our wisdom, idealism, grace and near-perfect behavior, leaving us in a mess. Are we not in danger of losing all sense of proportion-becoming in the process a sort of humorless cry-baby of the Western world...
...larger sense, it might be wise not to undertake lengthy trips, if game conditions at the host campus are at all uncertain. We are not sure, from our relatively uninformed vantage-point, just what the answer to all this is: but we would be very surprised if there were no answer...
...breed of journeyman fighters, proud of his trade, Old Archie (41 going on 44) is always in shape, always ready to throw punches for pay. So last week he simply packed his bag, flew to Louisville and on Derby Eve treated a race-wise crowd to a professional demonstration of ring-wise skill. Archie's snappy little imperial stayed trim as a movie star's toupee while he gave young (25) Besmanoff a painful ten-round boxing lesson. He won the decision handily...
...spoil Fidelman's appetite by hungrily watching him eat; he stands shivering at his side to shame Fidelman for having warm clothing. Given four dollars, Susskind contemptuously counts the money, demands: "If four, then why not five?" Giotto forgotten. Fidelman is systematically robbed and humiliated, but learns what wise men have known for centuries: that a man is responsible for the life he saves...
...teacher is the key; in our school the teacher doesn't have his courses divided so that he has to spend time with slower pupils. He's free to try new things. He can stimulate and become as stimulated as his students; if he's wise, he grows with them." Says one stimulated teacher: "It's a privilege to be here; it's constantly exhilarating. The problem is that so many of the kids are brighter than we are. We know darned well our IQs don't match most of theirs...