Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wise and Kawakami, once they got their net games working, became an excellent doubles combination, leading sweeps in the doubles competition in both the Dartmouth and Yale contests which closed the season...
Clarke Kawakami, the captain and number two man, overcame inconsistency in the early going to have a good season. "Butch came on quite well toward the end, and played a great match against Yale," Wynn said of Kawakami. He played first doubles, with Eric Wise, the third singles man, who was probably the squad's most consistent player. Wise, Harvard's only loser at Brown, reversed that contest by winning the only match at Princeton. He had a 6-2 record...
...government cannot put down an insurrection against a government which is falsely called a Communist insurrection. Although Communist-backed, it is still a bonafide insurrection against a government which is little more than an agency of the Soong family"? 4 Of Mussolini, in 1935: "So great a man ... so wise a ruler"? 5 Of Richard Nixon, after a 1950 California senatorial vote: "I'm very happy that Helen Gahagan Douglas has just been defeated by Richard Nixon"? 6 And who errs, no fewer than four times, in referring to the late Time Inc. editor-in-chief as Henry...
...corruption," contained a lot of real or feigned naivete, as well as some deliberate malice toward U.S. policy. Still, there are legitimate issues at stake. Few deny the U.S. Government's right to carry on secret operations. The question is whether, in a free society, it is right, wise-or necessary-for supposedly independent organizations to receive secret subsidies...
...Line: Ernest Hemingway is really source material for Hemingway biographers and thesis hunters in the Eng. Lit. factories, the book does have intrinsic value for nonacademic readers. Hemingway told good yarns. His fishing and hunting stories made sea and forest seem God's heaven. And he had wise words for would-be writers: "Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." But always the book's main interest is the author. It traces the rise, the peaking out and the decline of Ernest Hemingway as stylist...