Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress in a docile mood. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, without whose support the bill's passage is doubtful, has yet to be convinced that the taxes are wise. Along with Louisiana's Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Mills has argued that a tax increase now might set off a business slide, thus lowering rather than raising revenues...
...whose arrest for drunken driving was the proximate cause of the riot, becomes a sympathetic figure. Raised in Hanna, Wyo., with no angry sense of color, he came to Watts in 1957 and was quickly told by new classmates that he "talked funny." By August 1965, he was talking wise-and wearing tight trousers and Italian shoes. Officers Lee Minikus and Bob Lewis of the California Highway Patrol, who arrested Frye in the sight of hundreds of irritable Negroes, were well-trained, ambitious cops who bore no overt prejudices against Negroes. One of the rioters that the book focuses...
...spent four decades introducing numerous reforms, such as a Colorado law forbidding the charging of children under 16 with crime. Juvenile Judge Orman W. Ketcham, of Washington, D.C., a faculty member of the current summer college, has campaigned for years for stronger legal safeguards for children. Justine Wise Polier, for 32 years a justice in New York's family courts, has written books advocating a more compassionate approach to juvenile problems...
...hallucinatory and visible only to Macbeth. It makes no more sense to bring in a ghost visible to all the banqueters and to us than to lower a dagger on a string for the earlier soliloquy (and the true ghost appearances in Hamlet and Julius Caesar are in no wise analogous...
...Word to the Wise...