Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle years can be wise and felicitous, they can also be foolish and frantic, fraught with nerve-frazzling doubts and despairs, somber with peril and melancholy. The middle-ager usually knows better than to stay up till 4 a.m., but he sometimes finds himself waking up at 4 or 5 a.m. in a swivet of inexplicable panic. He has reached the age of what T. S. Eliot called...
...bridge-at midnight trEmbles; The cOuntry-dOctor rAmbles. BAnkers nieces--seek perfEction, ExpEcting All the gifts that wise-men bring. The wind hOwis--like a hAmmer, And the night blOws rAiny. My lOve, she's like some rAven, At my window with a brO--ken wing...
...Juan Terry Trippe, 67, one of the true pioneers of U.S. commercial aviation, remains very much in charge, partly because he is wise enough to delegate more and more responsibility to younger men, partly because he has lost none of his instinct for money-making innovations. Trippe was the first to order the 490-passenger Boeing 747 -some $525 million worth-for delivery starting in 1969. But even Trippe can have problems. The most notable: Pan Am flies the rest of the way around the world, but, by Government edict, its planes cannot take customers across...
...considers his own films "pure cinema," meaning storytelling through montage, the art of putting shots together to convey an idea to his audience. Hitchcock emphasizes this visual concept of film-making whenever he discusses his own films, and in seeing his fiftieth, Torn Curtain, it would be wise to take the hint...
...order to think better. For this is the first and only goal of a "university" that has neither students nor classes, and conducts seminars that no one is obliged to attend. Now 36 years old, the Institute is a unique haven for scholars to think, ponder and grow wise, shielded from life's more mundane distractions and freed from normal academic obligations. "The one thing we will never ask you," Institute Director J. Robert Oppenheimer tells newcomers, is 'What are you doing...