Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles this year. He has perhaps more native speed than Baker and is an explosive runner. The first two races he lost to Baker--against Army and B.U.--were early in the season, and Baker is quick to point out that his teammate has progressed more than himself strength-wise since the beginning of the season...
...leaves little comfort for the many who hold that the only good exercise is lifting a glass at the end of a tense day. For them, a word must be said about the tendency to overdo: after the last glass of Pommard with the blue cheese, it is not wise to rise too rapidly from the chair. That might be too strenuous...
...careful research that makes the products of his map room so accurate, says Chapin, he must sometimes rely on informed guesswork. He remembers a week during World War II when a cryptic cable arrived from John Hersey, then a TIME correspondent, from Honolulu: "If Chapin is a wise man he will know what to map in the Pacific this week." Chapin studied a Pacific map to find what might make him wise. The only possibility, he concluded, was the Solomon Islands. When U.S. Marines invaded Guadalcanal, TIME'S map was ready to go to press...
Murky Waters. Of the only two new plays with any serious intellectual content to have opened in the West End this season, one-Peter Ustinov's disappointing Halfway Up the Tree-closed in New York after only 72 performances. The other, Wise Child, has already closed in London, despite a strong cast headed by Sir Alec Guinness. A kinky, comic and slightly sinister play by Simon Gray, Wise Child presented Guinness as a criminal on the lam, disguised as a woman. He is being blackmailed by a weirdo youth who carries out the pretense of being...
...plot are a rapid-fire series of attacks on a few of the more usual elements of society, most particularly the church. The devil speaks of God sitting on his great throne "surrounded by thousands of sycophantic, prissy little angels" all telling Him how great, good, handsome, and wise He is. In response to his final wish, the cook is transformed into a nun and lands in the convent of the Leaping Virilians, where initiation consists of bouncing around on a trampoline to the beat of Big Sister, the head of the convent. ("Big Sister Is Watching You" signs appear...