Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wise Act." Accordingly, said the President, when Stassen first informed him of "what he expected to do ... I assured him that that was his right as far as I was concerned"-but, if he planned to express his own preference, he must do it as an individual and not as a member of the official family. Later, when "he came to me ... to ask for a leave, which I personally thought was a wise act on his part ... I promptly approved...
...Remember. On foreign aid, the 84th was unconvinced and unconvincing: last week it authorized the spending of $4 billion, some $900 million less than the Administration had originally thought necessary. On domestic legislation, the Congress was sometimes more generous than the Administration thought wise: it expanded the 21-year-old Social Security program, added disability benefits at the age of 50, forced on the Defense Department more money ($900 million) than it wanted for the Air Force. The two bills for which the 84th will be longest remembered: the $33 billion highway construction program, biggest public works project...
...Wise Fish. Ever since then, sometimes in fleets of three or four, sometimes in a single junk, sometimes trusting their lives to a flimsy sampan across 30 or 40 miles of open sea, other Chinese fishermen have followed the original 1,600 to Hong Kong. Some were caught on the way and either executed or sent to Red labor camps. For all of the estimated 4,000, the hoped-for joys of freedom proved elusive. Those who had managed to smuggle out their own fishing gear found it antiquated and almost useless in waters where the local fishermen...
...graveyard, the blind girl finds social security. She also meets two human beings who, alone among New Hoosicers, seem wise and considerate: Old Repent, the tombstone cutter, and young Robber Jim, an illegitimate half-breed who inhabits the nearby city dump. When Lovey finds she can see again, and loves Jim at first sight, Jim knows instantly. With grandma's death, Lovey regains the capacity for grief. Outraged by her parents' glee during the sterile funeral service, Lovey tauntingly tells them she can see again ("Father, your hair is horrible"). Lovey's parents hardly listen...
...Miguel was really a Don Quixote, and his Quixote's genius for glory and self-destruction led him to gibe constantly at the liberal republic, to salute the Francoist rebels in 1936, and, characteristically, to live just long enough to regret it. "He alone is truly wise who is conscious of his madness," he said in a lecture at Oxford. "I am conscious of my madness; therefore I am truly wise." Thus he lived and performed, an honored enigma. At one time, his work and his person seemed to have the embroidered smile of a saint on a religious...