Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemy do it. But African and other Asian nations send delegations here to see what makes Malaysia tick. If democracy has a show window in the East, this (with Singapore) is it. Do we want to throw these countries to the wolves? Confronted with a choice of evils, the wise man chooses the lesser; that's what we have to do in Viet Nam. But let's not forget, as we make our choice, that the lives of the most successful democracies in Southeast Asia hang on our decision. PAUL PEACH Professor Faculty of Engineering University of Malaya...
...perverting the truth was not invented by Buckley but by the cynical school of Sophists thousands of years ago. Any fool can learn the rules, and if followed by a parrot, he could appear as a wise old bird to the child-brained. ALFRED FABRE Casa Grande, Ariz...
Lovers & Cars. The 38 stories read like the notebook of a benign confessor. Most of them are about women-beautiful and rich, wise and foolish, vital and declining, ensnaring and ensnared in a love trap. Or if not in love, then remembering what it was like and regretting the flight of passion. Maurois' women give to friendship only what they steal from love; they give to love only what their husbands have forgotten how to take. His couples are always married but rarely to one another. They change lovers the way Americans trade cars. The transfers usually take place...
...Advisory Council is the direct outgrowth of the Dow protest and the issues which that demonstration raised. By denying the probationed protestors the privilege to seek election to the Council, the Administration would undercut the Council's purpose and spirit. A wise solution would be for the Administrative Board to end probation for the demonstrators at midyear. Then the activists would have a fair chance to seek election, no regulations would be violated, and the probation would still have its deterrent effect. But even if the Board does not shorten the term of probation, the purpose and potential importance...
...Tigers snaked the ball up to the goal line three times in the first half, only to be stopped by desperate Harvard scrambling, including a bone-breaking tackle by wing Parker Wise...