Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...League rugby rivals played to a scoreless deadlock in the first half. The Green kept the ball on Harvard's half of the field, but time after time the Crimson defense warded off Dartmouth scoring threats. Harvard's Parker Wise--who left a trail of green jerseys wherever he roamed--choked off a Dartmouth sweep with a vicious tackle about 5 yards from pay-dirt...
...times, said Gardner, call for cohesion. "Today, the first duty of responsible citizens is to bind together rather than tear apart. The fissures in our society are already dangerously deep." It was a ringing cry for unity from a wise administrator who is all too infrequently heard from...
Stage humor is in transition. The old humor of the gag and the wise crack was confident, benign, a pick-me-up rather than a putdown. The new humor, which draws its tone from play wrights such as Albee and Pinter, is cruel, taut-nerved, and speaks the lingo of the obscene and the absurd, not funny-ha-ha but funny-peculiar. The new humor reigns in off-Broadway's Scuba Duba, a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, A Mother's Kisses...
Modern cattlemen herd their cattle by helicopter, brand them with dry ice instead of red-hot irons, talk about "gatherings" instead of roundups, depend on a good accountant more than a wise old foreman and, when they fade into the sunset, do so in pickup trucks with their trusty horses comfortably trailered on behind. About the only things old pokes would still recognize about the industry, indeed, are its size and its troubles. Cattle roam no less than 40% of all the land in the U.S., account for 20% of all farm income and the principal revenues of at least...
Such blunderbuss terror tactics have little to do with firm and wise law enforcement. Nor does the city's announced intention of blackmailing hippies with a scattergun enforcement of vagrancy laws: arrested hippies must either go to jail or get out of town...