Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knows better than Gruenther that the history of NATO is also a story of NATO nations constantly falling short of constantly reduced goals. The original goal of 90 active divisions was cut by the Three Wise Men*to 50. Soon after he took command in mid-1953, Gruenther recognized that not even this goal was going to be met. In the U.S., Eisenhower shifted U.S. rearmament from a crash basis to "the long haul." In Europe, making a virtue of what was political necessity, Gruenther set up the New Approach Group to devise a new strategy for the defense...
This book is like a game of musical chairs played in bed. Husbands and lovers, wives and mistresses are whisked in and out of each other's arms with such worldly wise frivolity as to suggest that English Novelist David ("Bunny") Garnett has snitched his basic idea from La Ronde. The biological hero of the novel is handsome Alexander Golightly (Alexis to his friends), who is in his late teens when Aspects of Love begins. Aspiring to the labors of Venus rather than Hercules, Alexis proposes two weeks of illicit bliss to Rose, a stranded French actress with...
After the gracious observation that "politics has given me the best ten years of my life," Nixon might have been wise to sit down. But, feeling the tension of his position and not wishing to seem unappreciative of the gesture that the gathering represented, he kept on talking, finally trailing off in a series of isn't-it-wonderful platitudes that left his audience both embarrassed and bored. The fact was that, however good the intentions of the guests may have been, it was almost impossible to make it a happy birthday for Dick Nixon...
...fact is, however, that U.S. businessmen who know how to relax, and are wise enough to do it in time, are in the minority. The problem of physical and mental erosion in the top executive levels of business has grown so serious that more and more U.S. companies have begun to subject executives to rigorous annual or semiannual checkups, let them take vacations every quarter instead of once a year. In the obituary columns, the insurance-company graphs, and in the companies' own performances, the results show: the most valuable and most successful men in U.S. business...
...slip into a pattern of behaviour which, though inherently wrong, has been condoned by "THE modern thinkers." Whether or not the statistics are true, I do not believe that they should be gleefully flouted about as if to say, "Guess what's happening in one out of five marriages! Wise...