Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wise for Negroes to speak harshly to police chiefs in rural Alabama. Mrs. Godrey faced certain conviction and, at the very least, a stiff fine for her folly. But a remarkable thing happened when she came to trial. Probate Judge Woodrow Barnes led the police chief and Mrs. Godfrey into his chambers at the Tallapoosa Co. courthouse, closed the door, and told them he was dismissing the case to avoid untoward publicity. A reporter had shown...
...version currently on stage is not that of Sophocles; it is the modern one of Anouilh--who is, with Beckett, one of the two greatest play-wrights of our time in the French language. Anouilh did, however, work from the play of Sophocles, though the result can in no wise be called a translation. In fact, Anouilh's play contains only one line that is an exact rendering from Sophocles. Anouilh preserved the actual story intact, but subjected the entire affair to a deep and thorough rethinking. If he was unable to equal the lofty grandeur of the original...
...stew, dispensed from the busy buses of the Diggers, a band of hippie do-gooders. Last week the sidewalks and doorways were filling with new arrivals-hippies and would-be hippies with suitcases and sleeping bags, just off the bus and looking for a place to "crash" (sleep). Wise hippies wrap themselves in scrapes against the San Francisco chill, or else wear old Army or Navy foul-weather jackets and sturdy boots. One way to identify the new arrivals is by their mod clothes: carefully tailored corduroy pants, hip-snug military jackets, snap-brimmed hats like those worn by Australian...
...object on display last week at Manhattan's Howard Wise Gallery looked suspiciously like a telephone booth. In fact it was a telephone booth, but of a very special kind, designed by Argentine-born Marta Minujin, 25. The Minuphone is what she calls an "environment." The viewer is invited to step inside and dial a number. The phone really works (its number is 581-4570)-but it also sets off a sequence of experiences that suggest the giddying effect of a short trip...
...noted, our wars in the past have been fought on something close to unanimity rule. And they have always had the part of the population that now opposes in full support. That it is wise to act in neglect of the informed, articulate and young -- that they can be ignored as somehow morally as well as numerically inferior -- is far from proven. On the contrary, it is likely to be rembered as one of the cardinal political errors of modern times. In American life, it has long been my observation that the intellectual, so-called, is fashionably dismissed...