Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lang's offspring. The engagements had to be broken off, to avoid fresh incest. And when Sophia dies abruptly of "some internal illness that is mortal." the children really feel it is time for them to go and live somewhere else. The neighbors agree that this is a wise move, though naturally they are sorry to lose a family that has brought so much interesting abnormality into the village and has undergone what is described as "plenty of maturing experience lately." But the general conclusion is that the Staces have been much luckier than most families because...
...Collins message to both sides was the same: in order to find wise solutions, the whites must "face up to the fact that the Negro does not now have equal opportunities, that he is morally and legally entitled to progress more rapidly, and that a full good faith effort" must be made to help him lift his standards. Similarly, Negroes must contribute by changes in their own attitudes, e.g., by realizing that they "must merit and deserve whatever place [they] achieve in a community . . . There must be change, and change usually comes hard . . . Ours is the generation in which great...
...made the point last week. Blondie (NBC, Fri. 8 p.m., E.S.T.) carried its own comic-strip pedigree. Mr. Adams and Eve (CBS, Fri. 9 p.m., E.S.T.) offered husband-and-wife Hollywood stars playing husband-and-wife Hollywood stars. Howard Duff as a vain boob, Ida Lupino as the archetypically wise better-half. Except for wife Lupino's acerbic way with a line, it never got off the comic page...
Thus, say Wall Streeters, the wise investor should pay more attention to earnings and dividends of individual stocks, plus the overall stability of the U.S. economy and its future prospects before deciding whether the market-and any individual stock-is too high or too low. Says Walston & Co.'s top Analyst Tony Tabell: "Everyone would be a lot better off if they forgot the averages entirely and concentrated on individual stocks, but we can't seem to get it through to the public...
...home was full of the murmur of menservants, and in the dining room of their country mansion, "there were always two little colored girls ... to waft the flies from us with enormous peacock feathers." When the time came for Gerard to go to Yale, he thought it would be wise to case the ancient joint before entrusting his person to it. Horrified by its soiled, congested appearance, Gerard entered Princeton, a place which to him really "looked like a university...