Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD and, even while living, they weren't too sure who they were, why they were alive or why they were summoned to Elsinore. Tom Stoppard's work is both witty and wise, drawing its humor from the device of looking at the events around Hamlet through the eyes of the addled house guests, and its humanity from the universality of a situation in which men cannot understand the orders handed them by fate...
...severing of the dollar's ties to gold. In the White House, the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and Congress, a growing number of policymakers are asking why the U.S. has to concern itself with gold at all, and whether the world's richest nation might not be wise to cast its currency loose from a metal that Lenin once said was fit only to build public toilets. Behind this question is the sound conviction that the dollar, backed by the powerful U.S. economy, is not as bad as gold. At home and abroad, most monetary experts believe that...
...Ratings-wise, as they say at the networks, the first half of the 1967-68 TV season has been seismographic. In one recent six-week period, the Beverly Hillbillies jounced from the No. 1 position to 27th, Ed Sullivan from 19th to third, Dean Martin from 20th to seventh. Significance-wise, say the programming vice presidents, these sharp fluctuations signal the era of the "selective viewer...
...society." He returned to Oxford, earned a Ph.D. in anthropology and psychology in 1950, and went to work teaching social psychology at Oxford. But social psychology left him restless. Before long, he switched to education. "Many social ills might be prevented," he argues. "They could be prevented through the wise use of education." Curle transferred to the University of Exeter, teaching education and psychology...
...bars seems to be something that went out with From Here to Eternity and the professional army. The G.I. these days is a civilian at heart-and savvy enough to reject the most importunate tout's offer of "a good place" with a grin and a worldly-wise shake of the head...