Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like any wise general, Harry Luce made sure that there would be no slackening of that effort in the event of his death. "I want everyone," he said, "to get used to the idea of what they call the Lucepapers without Luce." In 1960, corporate control of Time Inc.?in which he then held 17% of the outstanding stock?was transferred to Board Chairman Andrew Heiskell and President James A. Linen. When he retired as Editor in Chief, Luce appointed Hedley Donovan, former managing editor of FORTUNE, who for five years had been Editorial Director of Time...
...superconducting accelerator has already set Physicist Wolfgang Panofsky, director of Stanford's SLAC, to thinking ahead. The new accelerator does not actually make SLAC obsolete, he says, but it "might be wise," as early as 1970, to examine the possibility of converting the big machine to a superconducting accelerator...
...long sadness. For it is not just that with him is blanked out an immense treasury of sympathy and scholarship whose doors were always open. Editors of this paper were among the many who drew frequently and gratefully on his knowledge and judgement. Yet more even than wise counselor and true friend was he the living presence of fighting integrity...
...Your review of the book on Chambers and Hiss [Feb. 10] is, TIME-wise, strangely unruffled. You appear to rest your case on the tushery that dead men shouldn't be slandered, ho hum, as if TIME had grown big and strong on Confucianist milk. Why not work over a dead man-if that is what he deserves from a history he malevolently affected? Surely the point is that the author of this filthy act of vampirism deserves the contempt not only of those who would speak no evil of the dead, but of those who applaud such lonely...
What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge...