Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the last twenty years, high American officials have repeatedly misunderstood China's interests, intentions and capabilities. In the 1950's, scholars who saw through the myth of monolithic communism and called attention to the peculiarly Chinese nature of communism in China were denounced as something less than honest, wise or loyal. In contrast to their view, Dean Rusk, then Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, proclaimed that Mao's government was only a puppet of Moscow: "The Peiping regime is a colonial Russian puppet government. ...It is not Chinese." He and his colleagues also insisted that China...
...Adams as mehitabel made a part that could easily have worn thin (her motto, "toujours gaie," must have been repeated 50 times) constantly amusing, surprising whenever possible, and occasionally touching. John Sansone's archy, however, didn't quite click, perhaps because his part was rather stupid: a lot of wise sayings from the cockroach's perspective on human life, neither incisive nor witty...
...Wilkins, L.H.D., executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. Wise counseling in the struggle for justice and equality for Negroes, without resorting to violence...
Jacqueline Grennan, L.H.D., former nun, president of Webster College. Articulate and courageous innovator, perceptive teacher, wise counselor in the highest national cabinets, co-searcher in the cause of open-ended truth, you confirm the future of liberal learning...
...squad lost to Andover, Princeton, and Choate. Against Andover, there were four 3-set singles matches; yet Wise won the only one for Harvard. At Princeton, Mike Ezell, at number six, pushed his man for three and a half hours before losing a heartbreaking match. The Choate defeat, a 9-0 whitewash, was even more humiliating. "We were leading in every match when it started to rain, and we came back and lost them all," Wynn said...