Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following the King Saud-Mayor Wagner incident, it has become obvious that the center of religious bigotry and narrow-mindedness in the U.S. has moved from the Bible belt to New York City. Why don't you people get wise to what's going...
Hollywood Producer Joe Mankiewicz. On location in South Viet Nam to film the Greene novel, his concern was simply to get a good shot of the Holy See at festival time. Cao Dai's Pope Pham Cong Tac was in Cambodian exile when Mankiewicz arrived, having deemed it wise to flee the country after some trouble with the government last year concerning his Vestal Virgins, but Vice Pope Bao The was more than glad to oblige...
...after the first few minutes of the third act, Mr. Wulp reveals himself as a bearer of good tidings. He has a message--roughly, that it is wise for men to stay at home and cultivate their gardens. Unfortunately for the playwright, this has been said before, and more persuasively than he is able to say it. Unfortunately for the play, he drops the accents of comedy and continues in a tone which is apparently meant to be highly serious. The writing in the last act is made up of the worst sort of pseudo-poetic prose, studded with such...
...they will say all this much more explicitly, and probably much more convincingly, at the two introductory meetings. If you're at all interested, it might be wise to drop around and see what it' all about...
...world council sought about for another Moral Authority and another bridge, but it did not find one and wars broke out. The nation of the two wise men was soon reduced to ashes as was most of the rest of the world. And the wise man's rose wilted and his heart stopped...