Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there's the wise, paternal President. He gets on the hot line to Russia's Premier when a bomber group, sent beyond its fail safe point through a mechanical accident, enters Soviet territory. Despite American and Russian efforts to recall and later destroy the squadron, one plane bombs Moscow. The President must demonstrate dramatically America's lack of animosity toward Russia and prevent total disaster. So he orders another bomber to destroy New York...
...Harvard sophistication, adopts an alien mid-western twang and cultivates a homespun humor and the slightly hayseed appearance of an endearing country lad. A third arrives sporting a youthful social idealism. Finding this stance unfashionable, he soon outdoes his classmates in pretending to the cynicism of a world-wise septagenarian. Sometimes one's entire undergraduate career may become an act. "The Snow-Man," of one sort or another, is a traditional Harvard phenomenon The ethos of this complex is ambition; its characteristic emotion is frustration...
...Invisible Government, Wise and Ross...
...King himself, he was getting a routine checkup in an Atlanta hospital. Said he: "I do not consider this merely an honor to me personally, but a tribute to the discipline, wise restraint and majestic courage of the millions of gallant Negro and white persons of good will who have followed a nonviolent course in seeking to establish a reign of justice and a rule of love across this nation of ours...
...second and concluding act, the audience finds out why. The physicists were merely feigning madness, and the nurses were getting wise to their game. In fact Newton and Einstein are secret agents-for the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., respectively-with orders to abduct King Solomon, a peerless physicist from an unnamed third country who has solved "the problem of gravitation." This invites some windy word slinging about how a scientist may best preserve his probity. Solomon convinces his colleagues that they should all stay in the madhouse, because "we physicists have to take back our knowledge." However, in an ironic...