Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feast of Tet to the Vietnamese celebrators filling the streets. Vietnamese soldiers made a special effort to rejoin their families. Relative visited relative, threading through thousands of firecrackers popping and fizzing in the moonless night. The Year of the Monkey had begun, and every Vietnamese knew that it was wise to make merry while there was yet time; in the twelve-year Buddhist lunar cycle, 1968 is a grimly inauspicious year...
...push a button or step on a lever in order to activate their art, but Manhattan's Hans Haacke, 31 , has dreamed up an ingenious way of getting the viewer to turn on the art with out really trying. On display last week in Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery was a small white room, lined on four walls with 28 electric bulbs at shoulder level. When the viewer walked into the room, the four lights centering on him lit up in unison. When he moved, other bulbs lit up, chasing him around the room in a Big Brotherly...
...action of local officials is open to censure on other grounds. Their wise decision yesterday to stop harassing and arresting the sellers of Avatar was hardly provoked by decent motives. They did not yield their hypocritical Victorian prejudices, but merely realized that they had clogged the City Jail. The courageous, staunchly libertarian stand taken by the several dozen Harvard students who sold Avatar in the wake of Monday's bust was undoubtedly one of the main reasons the officials compromised their spurious virtue...
...they go to Harvard. The large-scale involvement of Harvard students in Avatar precipitated yesterday's compromise, not the commitment of a few local hippies earlier this winter to the ideal of a truly free press. In all probability, the officials would have taken a lot more time to wise up if hippies had dominated yesterday's sell-in. In short, it is clear that local law enforcement officials, even in their belated wisdom, adhere to a shamefully inequitable policy of legal discrimination...
...Marshall, Harlan F. Stone, William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes. Now the P.O. has decided to honor some Associate Justices who were every bit as great as their chiefs. First on the list: Oliver Wendell Holmes, who died in 1935 at the age of 93. Come March, his wise and bearded visage will look out from a new 15? stamp...