Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memorable years moved quietly and almost invisibly about Manhattan with sketch pad and fountain pen. When he died last year at 56, the graphic record he left behind told what he had best loved and captured: the big city with its derelict Bowery bums, jaded burlesque queens and their wise-guy following of touts and sports, the day-to-day lives of Manhattan's anonymous masses, and everywhere-lolling on the beaches, powdering their noses in the mirror of a subway gum machine or just striding, windblown, under the "L"-the proud, full-bosomed, round-rumped, bulging-calfed girls...
...majority control it had held for a decade before 1953. It has screened all candidates and come up with a non-partisan slate of ten, including its four incumbents Edward A. Crane, Joseph A. deGuglielmo, Marcus Morton, and Hyman Pill. The CCA has also endorsed Mrs. Pearl K. Wise, who has just completed a successful term on the School Committee, as well as Edward G. Bellis, Martin T. Camacho, Bradlee F. Clarke, Arthur R. Hall, and Witold J. Pladziewicz. Each of these candidates is committed to CCA's reform platform and each deserves election...
...word of kudos for your Art section. It is an outstanding section in an outstanding magazine. As an interpreter of art history and a translator of the high-flown language of art critics, it is without peer in the field; its lack of condescension is refreshing, and in no wise detracts from the impression it gives of being knowledgeable...
...sciences and the humanities remain separate and even warring disciplines," the Columbia professor of physics warned. Our present educational system, even in our great universities, succeeds only in mixing ingredients and hoping that "through some mysterious alchemy, the result will be a man, educated, well-rounded and wise. Most often, however, these ingredients do not blend," he asserted...
Peron's immature character was revealed in the events leading to the revolution. Hell-bent as he was, the love of a wise, well-educated, warm-hearted grown-up would have been a burden." --Editorial in the Wichita (Kansas) Beacon