Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RAPTURE. Patricia Gozzi-three years older than she was in Sundays and Cybele and just as wise-blazes her way through a dark and stormy story about a lonely child (herself), her bitter father (Melvyn Douglas), and a feral servant girl (Gunnel Lindblom), whose lives are all changed by the sudden appearance of a handsome escaped convict (Dean Stockwell...
...What industry, loquacity, pertinacity! He has something to say on nearly everything, and almost always something of still-living interest. There are here many bits of frivolity, triviality, or superficiality ... but no man can be wise through a thousand pages...
...notion that the earth rotates on its axis. Left to itself, a tub of water should theoretically be influenced by the rotation of the earth and go down a drain in the tub's bottom in the same direction as the earth is spinning-which would look clock wise to an observer hovering in space hovering in space above the Southern Hemisphere, Counterclockwise to an observer in the north. The theory was convincing enough, but so difficult was the proof that only recently has the direction of the bathtub vortex been verified in the laboratory...
Hoss Sense. At all times, the star must stick to his public character. A TV cowboy or country musician does not, if he is wise, roll into town behind a screaming police escort or in a chauffeured limousine. The touring cast of the Beverly Hillbillies cannily commandeers the town's oldest car for its infield entrance. Jim Nabors, trained as an operatic baritone before he took on the title role in Gomer Pyle, cost the gate an estimated 10% by trying to sing classical arias at the Shelby County (Iowa) Fair in July. And Lorne Green's Shakespearean...
...other Christians, thereby guaranteeing that the church, wherever it existed, at whatever cost, would not tolerate segregation within its body, then there would be a kind of fierce logic in its position. It would make for a kind of arrogance and bigotry toward those who were not fortunate or wise enough to put themselves in the way of being Christian. Men would knock at the door of the church to find out what they need to do to become what, in evidence, the Christian...