Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a polite convention that everyone thinks, but the System is wise enough to make provisions for the failure of thought. In fact, the System positively thwarts thought. As long as everyone complies to a minimal degree, everything works fine. But it's dangerous to surrender your entire mind to the System. If we had, we might have had to go to Hollywood, or transfer to Yale...
...father figure, however, was far from a permissive Robinson. Cook, a brilliant, self-taught naval officer, navigator and amateur astronomer, customarily kept his Yorkshire temper and sizzling vocabulary in check. But, as revealed by his journals and the accounts of his crew, he emerges as something less than the wise and civilized commander painted by Blunden's countryman Alan Moorehead in The Fatal Impact (TIME, April 8, 1966). More Bligh than blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that...
...saying. I just talked to them for a while and then went on. Now when I got across the street this cop asked me why I was assaulting those women. I said I heard what they said and just answered them. He asked me then if I were a wise guy or something. And I says to him "Are you a wise cop?" So then later when I'm sitting in the restaurant having something to eat, he comes in and jumps me from behind. Now I didn't know who he was, he didn't have a badge...
...which takes you to a small town in New Hampshire where you hear two girls speaking in Arabic. You either don't understand it and continue as usual, or do understand and talk to them. When you talk to them, a cop then asks you if you're a wise guy. You're either nice to him and then continue as usual, or you call him a wise cop and get into a flight that leaves you mostly blinded, you find that what should have been a determinant on the course of you life isn't one after...
...tick dance routines, which have long since been kidded to death in Thoroughly Modern Millie and on Laugh-In. The scrawny script merely vamps till the next number is ready; the shimmering show biz of the Twenties and Thirties, which once seemed spun of gossamer, is now only cobwebs; Wise's special effects are ruinously commonplace...