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...Grand Poobah has accepted about 10 other certified fluff cases into her club, including The Wise and Far Seeing Vizier, and The Most High Mufti...
...fail." So posits one of the venerable Salada tea bags that have guided many through this herky-jerky four-year escapade. I'd always laughed at its more-jaded-than-thou outlook. After my oral exams, Salad's wise man is the one doing the snickering...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica on wheels." Side by side, they take turns at boring in on a guest. Only a politician with aplomb and a fast tongue can escape being overwhelmed by this pair, even though, as the old saying goes, a fool can ask ten questions while a wise man answers one. Sometimes an affable Brinkley eases up their questioning: "We've become aware of very bad public reaction if we seem rude and aggressive...
Such wide-eyed enthusiasm has prompted one of Broderick's colleagues to remark, "Matthew is really 21 going on 15." Or perhaps 50: he is a fascinating combination of young and old, innocent and wise. "From the minute he was born, he was almost the most grownup member of my family," says his mother Patsy. "He's very commonsensical, and he's got a very strong ear for what is going on in a room. He can read people just right. He started off savvy...
...prose. Nor was Clark, being essentially a 19th century critic at work in the 20th, able to bring to his work the array of insights about perception and psychology that distinguished contemporaries like Ernst Gombrich or Adrian Stokes. Clark was a pre-Freudian and, though he was too wise to try to dismiss the sort of art that comes from the dark side of the mind, he felt ill at ease with extreme expressions. Pascal's dictum that the ego is detestable-Le moi est haïssable-was his motto, and he lived up to it with guarded...