Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, Bate writes beautifully, and thereby reduces the scope and diversity of his subject to the complicated clarity of a fine intelligence. His style, in fact, suggests nothing so much as that of George Eliot, wise and quietly affectionate...
...necessarily conform to the dictates of socialist realism. Their efforts have been occasionally successful, but the Party's policies towards literature continue to be dominated by political considerations. When Premier Khrushchev decided the publication of the startling novel One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch would be a wise political move, he made it. When it appeared the pressure for intellectual freedom engendered by the publication was growing out of hand, Khrushchev summarily quashed the dissident voices...
Possibly hinting that nonwhites may be barred from all stadiums, Foreign Minister Eric Louw thundered that "active measures are necessary to prevent this sort of thing," which, he complained, "is giving South Africa a bad name overseas." As for Port Elizabeth, the authorities there decided that the wise course would be to sell no more beverages in bottles-and to double the admission price for nonwhites at future games...
...Seventh Seal, he plunges straight down into the abyss of God and wanders there among the gnarled and leering roots of living religion. In his recent films (The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light), God is present again and again but always in dreadful or ambiguous wise: as a spring of water, as a giant spider, as a silence. Never as love, never in the heart's core...
...late '50s, a rising nightclub comedian was wise to be sick if he wanted to be solvent. Monied mirth was found in plane crashes, terminal diseases, physical handicaps, capital punishment. Then Bob Newhart cleared the atmosphere. His monologues, softly twanged and delivered at leisure, drew laughter that wasn't full of marsh...