Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long way off. Meanwhile there is a growing consensus that mere law enforcement is wholly inadequate to the problems of drug abuse. Medical and psychological treatment needs to be improved and greatly expanded. The nation must also find new paths to prevention, cultivate social patterns that will encourage wise use of drugs?and eventually forestall the development of the drug-dependent personality...
...Jewish principal (Michael Constantine) who openly hates PTA meetings, and a stereotypical, wide-eyed, white apprentice teacher (Karen Valentine) capable of telling Haynes, "I think it's so significant that you're colored." Except for such sappy moments, Room 222 may prove to be more good-humoredly wise on the problems of school prejudice and board-of-education bureaucracy than that overpraised book and film Up the Down Staircase...
...Crimson lost Parker Wise and Pat Cashman, both excellent performers. from last fall's backfield, but there is still quality remaining. Junior Phil Ordway, the regular scrumhalf last season, is back along with sophomore three-quarters Verdi DiSesa and Line Caplan. Bucky Hayes and Phil Williams will play on the wings, with Daly at fullback. Junior Greg Sandomirsky is the fly-half...
...past colors so much of what happens in Ulster today that it's probably wise to begin with the past. Ulster, although it is a political part of the United Kingdom and a geographical part of Ireland, is a nation unto itself too. It has its own prejudices, traditions, and insights but these did not receive expression until 1922 when Ulster received its first government...
...whole new vision. "The day I got back," she remembered. "I walked down to the Yard and sat on the steps of Widener. It was the first warm day in such a long time. There was a boy sitting near me dressed in corduroys. He had a wise old face and the kind of arm you knew-well, you knew could cradle the head of a beloved as well as fill out income tax forms. We started talking...