Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usually Man and Superman is produced without the Don Juan interlude because the rest of the play is long and the interlude is to some extent extraneous to the action. Director Jerome Kilty was wise, however, to include it, for not only does it make the play a whole, but it also includes some of the best of Shaw's didactic dialogue. For those who may prefer plot to opinions on the artist-man and the mother-woman, combined with discussion of the relative merits of Heaven and Hell, there is the consolation of some very excellent special effects...
...have formed dozens of combines to help one another. Because Canada's provincial governments hold up to 90% of all mineral rights and in the West usually lease them in 100,000-acre blocks (price to Imperial recently: $1,700,000), even the biggest outfit often finds it wise to have allies rather than shoulder the expensive risk alone. Texaco, for example, is the chief operator of the four-company Northern Foothills Agreement Group, which holds drilling rights to 3,500,000 acres in Peace River's Boundary Lake area. Some other big-time gamblers pushing out from...
Reached last night in Chocorua, N. H., Hoadley explained that he was five years from retirement age and that "since Leverett is to be rebuilt, it seems wise to leave the pain and pleasure of that job to my successor...
...Constitution. Earl sat the awkward, clearheaded patriot in a Windsor chair as foursquare and unyielding as himself, threw a harsh, searching light on the stubby workingman's hands, which seem to regret having nothing to do, on the brow square-cut as a headstone, on the weary, wise button eyes, plow nose, sickle mouth, Gibraltar jaw-and painted the face of Conscience. One-eyed John Trumbull, an aristocrat who painted small pictures that could be encompassed with his limited vision, was a Fourth of July painter par excellence. He painted his famed The Declaration of Independence (see overleaf...
...view of all this, why had the industry felt it wise to announce a price boost at all? The steel industry's picture for the rest of 1957 is changing for the better, giving the industry confidence that its price hike will stick as more and more customers who have cut inventories too low begin to place new orders. The industry is also suffering from the nation's tight-money market, and it has to depend largely on profits to finance its ambitious expansion plans...