Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing that is trying to get into her bedroom is the specter of Hill House. In Shirley Jackson's bestselling ghost story, The Haunting of Hill House, the specter is a sneaky spook that evidently intends to get between the sheets. In this movie version, directed by Robert Wise, the specter is slightly censored-what's left is just the usual commercial spirit. Whenever it appears, the violins on the sound track start to didder, doors open and shut by themselves, people stare about in terror and squeak: "The house, it's alive!" The picture...
...Pearl K. Wise, the only other Councillor not seeking re-election, declined yesterday to expand on the statement she issued last July, giving poor health as the reason for her withdrawal from public life. Observers do not believe Mrs. Wise can win a third term, without the support of the Cambridge Civil Association, which she apparently alienated by her opposition to the Donnelly Field urban renewal project...
...film version contains a stunning shot of Ralph, having run from his pursuers, stumbling onto a British officer. The camera shows him slowly looking up the officer's high legs to his clean white socks and finally to his clean, white, British cap. Tears run from Ralph's wise eyes while the not-so-wise eyes of a neatly-dressed sailor stare uncomprehendingly...
Affronts Abroad. Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges cited examples of affronts to foreign buyers that no wise U.S. businessmen would think of making at home. Technical instructions are frequently printed in English instead of the local language, prices are quoted only in dollars, and English measurements given where the metric system is used. U.S. appliance makers are missing a booming market overseas because they refuse to adjust to the varying electric voltages abroad. Electric turbine makers often do not gear their powerful and complicated products down to the more modest needs of emerging nations. There are, said Hodges, "many cases...
Peter G. Filene, teaching fellow in General Education, Mrs. Betty Wise of Brookline, and Andrew R. Phillips, a student at Boston University, appealed the verdict and were released in $200 personal recognizance...