Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classic literature−Annapurna, The White Tower, etc.−but caves, mysterious, magnificent and challenging as mountains, still await their authors. Most Americans best know a cave as the sort of Stygian hole where Mark Twain marooned Becky Thatcher and Tom Sawyer. The society of the cave-wise in the U.S. contains a handful of scientists and spelunkers, most of them active in the National Speleological Society, whose 1,200-odd members are organized in 40 U.S. "Grottoes...
...series of evening stage presentations was Gian-Carlo Menotti's "The Saint of Bleecker Street." This is not Menotti's best work. It has numerous faults, one being that its length cannot support its dramatic content. But its subject matter and conservative musical style make it a very wise choice for a show aimed at the Boston public at large...
...take this clause to Parliament . . ." he said, "the chances of its being rejected are almost overwhelming. We must take into account whether, for the sake of a clause we believe in, it would be wise to challenge a final battle...
...years ago Harry S. Ashmore prophetically stated in his book The Negro and the Schools: "It is here (at the local level) that the South will have to determine the future of its educational system. Wise leadership at the upper levels can help, and emotional excursions by the leaders of either race can do great harm. But in the end the new patterns will have to be hammered out across the table in thousands of scattered school districts, and they will have to be shaped to accommodate not only the needs but the prejudices of whites and Negroes to whom...
Likewise it is probably wise for a Negro not to ask for dormitory accommodations as Miss Lucy did. The more intimate the relations with Negroes, the less palatable they are to white Southerners. For a while, it is better for Negro leaders to be content with a little so that they may gain a lot. In Miss Lucy's case, they wanted everything, and lost...