Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many members nowadays think it is too pretentious. Anyway, ever since last year, when one high-hatted member was mugged while en route to the opera, there has been the feeling that to wear a silk topper is to invite trouble. Nor do members wear opera capes; too many wise guys shout "Batman!" or "Phantom of the Opera...
...Sand Pebbles is a thought-provoking ad for the American way of political life. In the midst of a war that is continually costing the U.S. more in both money and lives, a major U.S. studio and a major U.S. director, Robert (The Sound of Music) Wise, have invested some $12 million in an angry if indirect attack on U.S. policy in Viet Nam. What's more, they will probably get their money back, even though this film version of Richard McKenna's 1962 bestseller turns out to be just a Panavision placard crammed with peacenik cliches...
...made this movie. The dubious parallel between China 1926 and Viet Nam 1967 is hammered home again and again with ball-peen bluntness: "All these people want is to be left alone"-"How would you like it if the Chinese had a gunboat on the Mississippi?" Yet Director Wise takes care to make his lecture entertaining. He shrewdly decorates his picture with a bloody wonderful battle sequence, some splendid Taiwan shorescapes, a simperingly pretty leading lady (Candice Bergen), Not to overlook McQueen, a leading man who turns in the sharpest performance of his career. In a picture full of paper...
Having admitted the cost in time and money is low, the University Food Services would be wise to continue the Leverett House mini-breakfast as an experiment to be extended to other Houses as it proves its worth. The deluge of customers the UFS fears is not liable to materialize, and the moderate number of souls fortified for the day's opening hours should justify the small expense...
...world's most prestigious corporate posts, A.T. & T. added 30 million telephones, $17 billion in assets, and 3,000,000 shareholders-twice as many as it had when he came into the job. But if company-wide experience is a criterion, A.T. & T. has made another wise choice...