Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...range. Four Texas rangers from Laredo (NBC) will be ranging Texas anew. The Legend of Jesse James has finally cracked TV and will get the cleaned-up Robin Hood treatment from ABC. ABC also has a variant of Bonanza called The Big Valley; Barbara Stanwyck plays Lorne Greene, dispensing wise advice and stuff to her three sons and a daughter, plus her dead husband's bastard boy for extra spice. Robert Horton, late of Wagon Train, has now forgotten his name and goes searching around the West for it as A Man Called Shenandoah (ABC). He may bump into...
...fuss, though, neither Prime Minister Sato nor South Korea's President Chung Hee Park doubted that their Parliaments would ratify the treaty by year's end. As Park put it: "It is wise that we should hold hands even with yesterday's enemy, if it is beneficial to us today and tomorrow...
...Society. "The Second Republic," he declared, "will be a new fatherland, where everybody will live together free from fear and poverty. Just as we have eradicated Communism and anarchy, we shall clean up the bad habits in our system, making the executive branch more dynamic, the legislative branch more wise and effective. Archaic structures will be renewed with a new sense of social justice, political balance, and economic order...
Young Actress Baxter, adroitly steered by Mackendrick through a delicate and provocative role, manages to project both tomboyish pluck and the elusive boldness of a child grown prematurely wise. In a fit of terror, the girl murders a Dutch hostage taken by the pirates, thus setting the stage for the film's incisive postlude. Safely delivered to England, her former captors gone to the gallows charged with her crime, Emily, like any pretty English schoolgirl, stands by a pretty English pond watching a toy sailboat drift away. Only the eyes reveal that within her child's body dwells...
...unworthiest of men are generally the most rewarded"). He shows little understanding of his venomous pupil, perhaps because Sheean's Nero is not a character at all but a dim amal gam of perfumes, painted lips and libido. In all, Sheean has taken one of history's wise men living in one of its most scandalous eras and produced a dry tract full of petty non sequiturs...