Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Playhouse is open Wednesday through Saturday nights every week, and is currently presenting "Our Town" in alternation with "As You Like It." There is no fixed charge for admission, but you pay whatever you want to contribute, which usually ranges from 50 cents to a dollar. It's wise to call up beforehand for a reservation...
...this kind of flying takes resourceful, air-wise pilots. A.F.F.C. has them. South Atlantic ferry pilots, a poker-playing, cocksure crowd, came from U.S. airlines, the Army Air Corps, from dogfights over Spain and China. Mostly poor, civilian pilots make up to $1,000 monthly for what they call easy work. Like all good pilots, they love their planes-in Brazil sleep in jerry-built airport shacks to guard against sabotage. But the planes get wrecked in Africa anyway; one-third of the first 18 ferry-delivered ships were damaged within a few days after delivery...
Nathan the Wise (adapted from the German of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing by Ferdinand Bruckner; produced by Erwin Piscator). This famous plea for tolerance, which a wise Christian wrote 163 years ago about a wise Jew, is still eloquent propaganda if pretty hopeless theater. It is easy to see why it was one of the first works burned by the Nazis when they came to power. Laid in Jerusalem at the time of the Third Crusade, it offers a setting in which Christian, Jew and Mohammedan can hardly help being at one another's throats. But by restricting them...
Rather unexpectedly, the play comes to life not in its dramatic scenes but in its didactic ones. At such moments, even in Refugee Bruckner's halting translation, Nathan the Wise has timeliness and force. The rest of the time it is cluttered with an old-fashioned plot that, in spite of being remarkably complicated, is even more remarkably static...
...means that after the war the motor industry will not consist of three huge successful companies and a handful of independents struggling against odds. All the signs point to a motor industry in which the Big Three will have to face the competition of a vigorous brood of independents, wise in know-how and better founded financially than at any time in a decade. Thus last week Nash, Hupp, Hudson and Packard were the four most active stocks on the New York Stock Exchange-and all four hit new highs for the year...