Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWANS ON AN AUTUMN RIVER, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. One of Britain's master short-storytellers shows that she has lost neither her deft cruelty nor her wise compassion in picturing human fallibility...
...franchise was entrusted to qualified voters, not a democracy, with the franchise in the hands of the unqualified mob, which they mistrusted. Benjamin Franklin, when asked what kind of government the framers of the Constitution had devised, replied, "A republic, if you can keep it." If we were wise, we would keep...
...Johnson directly. Alongside it, a pale green phone with a black receiver hooks him up to the new KY3 super-security network that links the President, the Pentagon and major military commands. Behind his desk hangs a Norman Rockwell watercolor of Johnson inscribed by L.B.J.: "To Dean Rusk, my wise counselor...
...Lolly Willowes was the first selection of the fledgling Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926), Author Warner turned to writing short stories exclusively in 1954. This baker's dozen of new stories shows that, at 72, she has lost neither her light-handed cruelty nor her wise compassion in picturing human fallibility...
Half his time is spent traveling around Spain, dedicating new hotels and other wise promoting new tourist lures; the other half is devoted to overseeing the Spanish press, which, until the long-discussed press law takes effect, still takes its orders from the government...