Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brewster grasps problems quickly, is wise in the ways of academic intrigues. He attends faculty meetings and wields authority without antagonizing touchy professors. Undergraduates find him remarkably accessible. When a group of Calhoun College seniors got up the nerve to ask Brewster to lunch, he took the crowd instead to Mory...
...race prejudice of the Negroes. In The Cool World, all Negroes are innocent, even when they are guilty; all whites are wrong, especially when they are right. Furthermore, the moviemakers too often splice sociology with sensation, documentary with melodrama. And finally, the cinematography is inexcusably sloppy-U.S. audiences, wise in the ways of the hand-held camera, are no longer likely to confuse the absence of art with the presence of truth. Still and all, The Cool World has an impact and a fascination. Who will not remember the beautiful wild faces of the children, blooming like bright manna...
...like Alec Guinness in Bridge on the River Kwai. He even establishes a gentlemanly rapport with the camp's commandant, who at heart is as decent as Erich von Stroheim in Grand Illusion. His troubles are with his own men-tough guys like William Holden in Stalag 17, wise guys like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, irrepressible Englishmen like Dirk Bogarde in The Password Is Courage. But Ryan is in this-man's-army, and in the end he proves it by freeing singlehanded all 964 prisoners after joining in the silent murder of their 28 guards...
...denying it a legitimate authority. It is an argument only for preventing the abuse of government power wherever it appears. If the large majority of open-minded and idealistic Americans, without whose acquiescence no filibustering minority can win more than a stay of execution, is to make a wise decision in the civil rights controversy, it must understand clearly what is at stake. What we are arguing about is whether we will use the power of the community to secure a fair chance in the competitive system in which we profess to believe for those who are deprived...
...dwindling power in state politics, and its boost gave Goldwater little more than a psychological victory. But Barry made the most of it. After a surprise visit to the winter retreat of Dwight Eisenhower in Palm Desert. Barry reported that Ike said "he does not think it wise for Republicans to fight Republicans," and implied that this was a criticism of Nelson Rockefeller. At a fund-raising dinner in Los Angeles, Goldwater fired a volume of metaphors at President Johnson and the Bobby Baker scandal. Said he: "If a Republican President found a Bobby Baker in his closet, he would...