Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gods, the common people are Satan, through whom God sometimes does what at other times he does directly through Satan, i.e., makes rebellion as a punishment for the people's sins. I would rather suffer a prince doing wrong than a people doing right. It is in no wise proper for anyone who would be a Christian to set himself up against his government, whether it act justly or unjustly...
Walking Paintings. It is a wise child that knows its own father. Nicolette Devas, 55, British painter and novelist (Nightwatch, Bonfire), had two of them: her natural father, Francis Macnamara, best described as a genius-at-large, and her adoptive father, Augustus John, painter, patron of English gypsies, and uncrowned king of bohemia...
Columbia's recent decision to withhold individual statistics from the ECAC bureau was a wise move in the same direction. Statistics may be kept for the internal operations of the coaches, but releasing them to higher authorities puts an undue, irrelevant pressure on individual performance that is out of keeping with the nature of team sports. Harvard should follow suit...
...always bite off more than we can chew." says Munro about the annual spring training jaunt. "We'll be playing four games in four days against teams that are six weeks ahead of us weather wise and get their pick of the top Long Island and Maryland boys...
...Show-biz-wise, indeedy. Yorty's first show topped Perry Mason, It's About Time and Truth or Consequences. The critics were not altogether kind. Along with a nix from Variety, Sam's show prompted a double-edged encomium from Los Angeles Times TV Critic Hal Humphrey. "Would it be fair to say," asked Humphrey, "that Yorty makes as good a TV host as he does a mayor? Probably...