Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state Wouk "is a devout Orthodox Jew . . . who has achieved worldly success in worldly-wise Manhattan while adhering to dietary prohibitions and traditional rituals which many of his fellow Jews find embarrassing." Did it ever enter your reasoning that perhaps many Jews just don't believe in the dietary laws...
...ready for his final appearance last week, he took his uniform to be cleaned. Pleaded the tailor: "Let me take it to my synagogue tonight and I'll pray over it." Dick went back to boning up on Volume 23 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (vegetables, vitamins, wines), The Wise Encyclopedia of Cookery and Simon's A Concise Encyclopaedia of Gastronomy...
...read with great interest the wise comments of those sages of the Democratic Party -Truman, Butler & Kroll-assembled at French Lick, Ind. [Sept. 5]. They are so right; the present Administration is sadly out of step. The Republicans have brought on a depression (with employment at an alltime high and unemployment at a new low) and have no regard for human needs-they have permitted prices to increase 0.3% while merely increasing take-home pay by a lousy $3.84 per week .. . They are demagogues that misrepresent by reporting what takes place at foreign conferences instead of allowing the American public...
Chipless Shoulder. Wouk, a man of paradox, seems like an enigmatic character in search of an author. He is a devout Orthodox Jew who has achieved worldly success in worldly-wise Manhattan while adhering to dietary prohibitions and traditional rituals which many of his fellow Jews find embarrassing. He is an ex-radio gagwriter who severely judges his own work by the standards of the great English novelists. He is a Columbia-educated (class of '34), well-read intellectual with an abiding faith in "the common reader" ("They're good enough to elect our Presidents, aren...
...Wouk, the wartime Navy was "the greatest experience of my life ... I had known two worlds, the wise guys of Broadway and the wise guys of Columbia-two small worlds that sometimes take themselves for the whole world. In the Navy, I found out more than I ever had about people and about the United States. I had always been a word boy, and suddenly I had to cope with the peculiar, marvelous world of the machine...