Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Head on the Table. Faure, the nimble master of political maneuver who had appointed Grandval. urged him to reconsider-but only halfheartedly. A worldly-wise French bureaucrat remarked that the Premier thought "it might not be a bad idea to have Grandval's head on the negotiation table." Shocked into action by the bloodletting, the Premier had summoned more than a hundred Moroccan notables to a conference at Aix-les-Bains and was now eagerly searching for an acceptable political solution...
...Manhattan, audiences have hailed Skin ever since. Cried the New York Times's persnickety Brooks Atkinson, dean of Broadway's critics, "Perfect.'' Rejoiced the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Perhaps even the theater will survive.'' Thornton Wilder's wild and wise romp is now fast making up the $73,000 deficit incurred by Salute. Best news of all: Salute should be completely out of the red after the U.S. at large gets its chance to see The Skin of Our Teeth as an NBC-TV Spectacular, Sept. 11,7 130 p.m. E.D.T...
...threatening to shoot their allies to protect Communists." Rhee assured Lemnitzer that his government had no intention of using force, but to make sure, the American gave orders to reinforce the U.S. guard at all five of the inspection points where the NNSC officers are billeted. It was a wise precaution, for within hours the rioting began...
...excuse for not increasing the church's rolls, even if it means luring people from other denominations ("Can you imagine the representatives of General Motors suffering any qualms over taking customers away from Studebaker?"). In asking for money ("this is primarily what you are concerned with"), the wise pastor will remind his people that "if you trust the Lord and put in ten dollars, you will get twenty in return...
...interview with Pablo Casals, the world's greatest cellist. In Prades, France, where Casals has lived in self-imposed exile from Franco Spain since the end of the civil war, the 78-year-old artist played two selections on the cello for another in NBC's Wise Men series. The fascinating part of the film, produced by Robert Graff, was the man rather than the musician. Out of the conversation, Casals' personality rose cleanly, buttressed by the serenity of a man who lives by his convictions...