Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebrated TV ban that Chicago's station WGN imposed on the film Martin Luther after protests by individual Roman Catholics (TIME, Dec. 31) was lifted last week by the intervention of the city's leading Catholic. Samuel Cardinal Stritch. the wise, wiry head of the U.S.'s biggest Catholic archdiocese (1,800,000). Although the diocese's official newspaper condemned the film in emphatic terms ("a hate-provoking movie"), Stritch's office issued a statement affirming "the democratic right" of all faiths to "the honest expression of a religious viewpoint" on TV. The diocese also...
...moment when he bows before his god. We may believe that his conception of the Divine lacks valuable, even essential, elements. His forms of worship may appear to us bizarre, sometimes repellent. But in that moment of prayer, every man is at his best; if we are as wise as we like to think ourselves, it is then that we will try to understand him. This book is an approach to such understanding...
...month's rest in New Zealand after a 35-day voyage from England by way of the Pacific. Wan and drawn, Sir Anthony perked up on sighting his chosen garden of Eden, crisply observed: "Now I have no plans. I am just at the mercy of your wise government and your...
...countries of "Little Europe" seek economic integration to solve their basic post-war problem--insufficient industrial productivity. The Euratom program, pooling atomic knowledge and materials, is a wise investment in a source of power which can eventually supply all industrial expansion. Atomic power will free Europe from the limitations of her shrinking coal reserves and from her all-too-costly dependence on Middle East...
...mood, mixing farce and tragedy, is endlessly complex. Yet De Sica continually achieves the casual visual epigram. His camera, like a wise old pickpocket, filches its riches unobtrusively. And the actors seem to fulfill the creator's intentions as naturally as if they were his hands and feet-even De Sica does exactly what De Sica wants. Toto, Italy's Chaplin, is exquisitely funny. Loren's parts fit beautifully into the whole. Mangano for once is convincing, and Paolo Stoppa, as a man who wants all the pleasures of suicide without its aftereffects, is superb. Perhaps best...