Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's Harold Macmillan another story of how easily Molotov changes hats. In France, on the way to the U.S., Pinay reported, Molotov had also been a regular sunshine boy. During a conversation with Pinay. he had smilingly suggested that in view of German rearmament it would be wise for France to cultivate her relations with Russia. France found that difficult. Pinay replied, because of the Kremlin's strong support of French Communists and their efforts to undermine French democracy. Instantly, the Russian's amiability melted, and it was the old, cynical Molotov...
Citation: "A teacher who has always sort of known that the hardest part of getting wise is being always just a little otherwise...
...wind blows from the south; then it dies away, and a hot and oppressive calm lies across the land. From the west comes a line of thunderheads. At first they are low on the horizon, but swiftly they rise and swell and dominate the sky. By this time, weather-wise Great Plains farmers, who know tornado signs, are sticking close to their cyclone cellars...
Last Gesture. A crowd of 250,000 had come from all over Europe to watch les vingt-quatre heures, and thousands of them spurned the grandstands to cluster as close as they could to the dangerous turns. The cars to watch, said the wise ones, were the three Mercedes entries, for the Germans had put three months of methodical, painstaking planning into this all-out effort to prove their 3OO-SLR cars the best in the test...
Casting Shakespeare in modern dress, Orson Welles sleight-of-handed Caesar the role of a fascist. Hollywood's Joe Mankiewicz saw his Caesar as a kind of tired, pompous stockbroker. Shaw's hero in Caesar and Cleopatra is a worldly-wise but disenchanted superman whom power has made not mad, but sad. Front-rank Historical Novelist Duggan (The Little Emperors) throws dirt on these literary ghosts by spading straight for the facts and unearthing many a fascinating shard from ancient Roman political life...