Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...runners-up: "racially troubled," "voters marched to the polls," "jampacked," "usually reliable sources," "backlash," "kickoff" (as applied to anything but a football game), "limped into port," "gutted by fire,-" "death and destruction," "riot-torn," "strife-torn," "tinder-dry woodlands," "in the wake of," "no immediate comment," "guarded optimism," "-wise" (as in percentage-wise...
...bishop is a bidone, a small-time swindler, and the camera has just watched him chouse some country chumpkins. But the spectator's smile does not last long. II Bidone begins as a common Italian comedy of criminal errors but it ends as the tragedy of an aging wise...
...Public Exploder (Mark Bramhall) and the two wise men who watched for royal abuses (Daniel Goodenough, Michael Sargent) made a delightful, villainous trio. The remainder of the absurdly large cast (numbering 17, plus a chorus of 26) was inspired...
...decision, Dean Monro said that the U.S. Office of Education had promised to exempt university-run projects from the requirements. Basing University policy on such an assurance--which flatly contradicts the wording of the Act's disclaimer clause--seems unwise enough. But the policy itself is even less wise...
Bombast aside, however, O'Hara's decision to stop writing short stories for a while seems wise. The Horse Knows the Way (the title has overtones of weariness and self-mockery) is his fourth large collection of short stories in four years. O'Hara's imagination is astonishingly agile, and his view of society and psychology is much broader than it is generally supposed to be. These stories, taken by themselves, have the sting of fresh work by a fine writer. But he has written so many stories that his fresh, vigorous writing is debased...