Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hague. An Orientalist by training and an ambassador by trade (to Japan, Malaysia), van Gulik was studying ancient Asian prose when he found the classic magistrate-detectives of Chinese literature. Supplying Occidental motives but preserving the delicate puzzle plots of the 7th century Tang dynasty, he pitted his wise and wily Dee against tyrants, palace power-seekers and assorted hatchetmen in 17 thrillers...
...grass looks several shades greener in the Spring Term. There are a few courses for which it might be wise to save room. History 160c sounds like the course which brilliant, tough-minded Bernard Bailyn has always wanted to teach. It concerns the Emergence of the Liberal State. James Thomson will be teaching History 171b which treats American-Far Eastern Relations and will hit Vietnam. Thomson is a good talker who worked in the National Security Council on the Far East. And no Harvard Education is complete without a little James Joyce. Reuben Brower will discuss him and other English...
...present Congress has presented a wise plan to curb a secretive President's injudicious policy. It does not propose to hamstring his successor, who, one hopes, will behave more reasonably...
Granted, said Dr. Cohen, specimens from healthy people will show 4% to 5% of cells with a notched or other wise damaged chromosome. But in LSD users, the rate soars to 19%, and-at least in the test tube-still higher with some other drugs. Granted also, said the panelists, that they have seen no proven case of a birth deformity in an LSD user's child, but they are investigating several suspected cases...
...sleazy slicker who for half a century has taken yokels with potency pills, crooked cards and his smooth Mason-Dixon line. The drifter is AWOL from Fort Bragg, and hungry. Scott proposes a merger, and the two are soon fast-shuffling their way to fortune, until the locals get wise to their brand of three-card monte and call the cops...