Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still seek freedom. Overriding everything else, nuclear weapons have given humanity "the power to end its history," made "world disarmament a necessity of world life." Then, without mentioning Adlai Stevenson by name, he took issue with Stevenson's recent essays into military strategy. The U.S. cannot "prove wise and strong with public speech that erroneously asserts our economic weakness [or] by any such simple device as suspending, unilaterally, our H-bomb tests [or] by hinting that the military draft might soon be suspended...
Louisville's quiet achievement in integration drew admiring comment from editorial writers the country over and from President Eisenhower at his weekly press conference. Said the President, of Louisville School Superintendent Omer Carmichael, 63: "[He] must be a very wise man . . . He pursued the policy that I believe will finally bring success in this...
...Business-wise, the 2,650-mile, $42 million cable between Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, and Oban. Scotland (financed and owned 50% by American Telephone & Telegraph, 41% by British Post Office, 9% by Canada's Overseas Telecommunications) was an absolute necessity. Starting in 1927, when transatlantic radiophone service began, the volume of New York-London messages alone had grown from 2,000 to 101,500 in 1955. Meanwhile, wavelength limitations not only overloaded but doomed the transatlantic radiophones to a meager 15 circuits that were at the mercy of static, sunspot interference and fading. Following bursts of sunspot activity, delays...
...London Times, veteran Diplomat Anthony Eden got a lesson in diplomacy from one of his former diplomats, Sir Ralph Stevenson (until last year British Ambassador to Egypt). "Action which would result in a legacy of ill will would defeat our object," wrote Stevenson. "And in politics it is never wise to leave the opposition with no loophole of escape from an untenable position." Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell emphasized that the only kind of military action he would accept must not be unilateral, but under the United Nations...
...Sagan has reduced hers to "What you feel is good, if you feel anything." Even the heroine's parting smile precedes a somewhat rueful summing up: "Well, what did it matter? I was a woman who had loved a man. It was a simple story." Being sad and wise and a little tired of it all in this continental way has a certain wayward charm. It seems to appeal so strongly to Françoise Sagan that she may never get around to striking any other pose...