Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your excellent article on Minnesota's Senator Humphrey [TIME, Jan. 17] leaves some hard questions unanswered. Assuming that he is "too cocky, too slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise," is he not just another Senator Claghorn with a "new look"? Is modern statecraft so simple an art that it can be mastered by one who learns his economics from South Dakota dust storms, and campaigns by visiting all the county fairs and eating hot dogs until they "come out of his ears...
...sickness continues the cry for doctors and medicine will grow louder. Private enterprising publishers who fear enterprising unionism might accede to existent social values and avoid an other-wise inevitable decline. But enlightened entrepreneurs are the exception. It is probably true, as some say, that given the American environment, only a metropolitan daily labor-owned press frankly speaking from a labor viewpoint can counteract ostensibly public-interested press actually talking the language of business. Ideally, the goal does not lie in this course, but rather in Winn's independent citizen venture. Under the leadership of Marquis W. Childs, for example...
...much for the curiosities of the phrase. It becomes ominous when it symbolizes a cynical attitude in this country toward any overture from Russia. Undoubtedly it is wise to move carefully--to study Stalin's statement thoroughly, in terms of both its phrasing and its timing. But this study should be to determine the nature of the negotiations, not whether they ought to be attempted. So long as there is the slightest glimmer of a possibility that the Russians may be seriously interested in casing the present tension, then they should be given a chance to do so. And certainly...
...Love (music & lyrics by Allan Roberts & Lester Lee; sketch editor, Max Shulman; produced by Sammy Lambert & Anthony B. Farrell) adds another to this season's rash of revues. It is one of the rashest-expensive, elaborate, and about as intimate as army maneuvers. This is not a wise setup for Grace & Paul Hartman (Angel in the Wings). At their best as nightclub zanies, the Hartmans are dwarfed by so large a landscape-and rather flattened out by their lines...
Before too much hard feeling is aroused over the issue of Lamont Library in particular and the University's and College's policy of "equal but separate" facilities, it might be wise to review the aims of the institutions and certain inescapable facts...