Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best story in the issue is, I think, Sallie Bingham's Winter Term. It is best because it is the most story, the least game or puzzle. It is not an exceptional story. It is neither subtle nor wise nor delicate nor beautiful nor revealing. It is both entertaining (because it is full of sex), and moving (because it is full of people). The people are not real, but they are infuriating. By the end of the story you are likely to be in a rage--perhaps at Miss Bingham, possibly at yourself, probably at the characters. But something will...
...only to reduce his capacity to do mischief. An intransigent Nasser, presiding over a nation too pauperized to be hurt much from economic pressures, is admittedly hard to get at. But U.S. policy is based on the conviction that a dictator who has shown himself more clever than wise is also not a man able to stand the slow throbbing of time...
When he let U.S. Miler Fred Dwyer talk him into leaving home to take an athletic scholarship at Villanova University, on Philadelphia's Main Line, Delany made a wise choice. In Villanova's Coach Jim ("Jumbo") Elliott he found a man perfectly attuned to his own theories of running. "I want him running only fast enough to win," says Jumbo. "I've seen too many potentially great milers burn themselves out by running fast week after week." Now that he has taught Ron to relax his arms and shoulders, to get the most out of his quick...
Gophers have dirty teeth, yellow bottoms, and thirteen stripes of a width-wise sort. They dig holes that trip cattle and eat grain, which aggravates farmers. They also incurred the enmity of Senator Richard L. Neuberger of Oregon, as if they didn't have enough trouble with nasty little men who pump bisulphide of carbon into their burrows. But at least these men make no pretensions about their aims, while Senator Neuberger has a sneaky, insidious scheme for annihilation...
Right & Wong. The Chinese know in advance who will be elected-Mr. Wong, who has everyone in his deep silk Shantung pocket. The wise and honorable British district officer can tell right from Wong but knows he must rely on Wong's support. A report exposing Wong's web of corruption and threatening the whole delicate balance of power is drafted by a British police officer. Because of Milty's intervention there follow intrigue, blackmail and suicide. Careers are wrecked. Things will never be the same again at the club. But Mr. Wong will appear...