Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Rumplestiltskin graduated from high school he was very wise in the ways of the world, and he knew what he wanted. Since Harvard was supposed to be a center of worldly wisdom, he came to Cambridge bent upon improving his mind...
...Wise old Albert E. Hart '80, Eaton Professor of Government, solemnly announced that he was "strong for Hoover" because "the most important thing is that he is a real businessman and knows our economic situation perfectly." It is hoped that if Hoover had known the political situation at Harvard, he would not have been pleased: the Hoover-for-President Club was found to be padding its membership rolls and placing on it signatures of non-Hoover supporters. Although all of the political clubs were somewhat corrupt, it was found that the Republican Club did more padding than the others...
...political meetings. But by last week the whites were beginning to realize that in order to protect their own inch, they might yet have to give Mboya a measure of his mile. A first meeting between black and white was held to discuss council reform, and at least one wise Kenya official admitted: "Some increase in African representation is justified and necessary." Says Mboya confidently: "Rule of this country by the majority is inevitable...
Like any prudent Congressman quick to heed even the silliest requests from a constituent, Brooklyn Democrat John J. Rooney, 53, asked the Library of Congress to ransack its stacks and files for the words to an oldtime ditty entitled The Lobster Is the Wise Guy, After AIL The library, one of the world's great literary storehouses, was embarrassed to reply that it could not locate Rooney's Lobster among its Crustacea volumes or anywhere else. At hearings on the library's budget, Representative Rooney scolded Librarian of Congress L Quincy Mumford: "I was amazed to find...
...Revolution. Brilliant Satirist Jean Dutourd (A Dog's Head, The Best Butter) will have little to do with any of these explanations. He refuses to see history in terms of abstract ideas, cycles or forces. He sees it in terms of men-weak or strong, good or bad. wise or stupid, to be judged by such quaint values as honor and courage, dishonor and cowardice...