Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same philosophy, it does not restrict itself to the specific point of the Man of Moral Passion being caught by the life force. "You Never Can Tell" gets off some heavy fire at the actual process of courtship that the later masterpiece disregards, and it also expresses some wise sentiments about the out-of-dateness of last year's radicalism...
...What goes on in people's minds-and in their hearts-is more important in determining the fateful future than what goes on in laboratories and production centers. . . . There are no supermen, all-wise, to solve these problems for us. [But] an informed and understanding people will [not] be taken in by sweet talk, or scared by shadows, or stumble-or be pushed-into some desperate finality. There is no substitute, no good substitute, for the common-sense judgment of a whole people...
...anonymous author for 15 years of the often wise, often witty column, "Topics of The Times," Strunsky had a far-darting eye. In a single week, he looked at plays of violence, Dartmouth College, the Marshall Plan, Herodotus, New Mexico (from dinosaurs to A-bombs), "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Eastern potentates, bestsellers, babysitting, Eva Perón, the War Assets Administration and Existentialism. Strunsky's skillful use of the telling fact, the apt comparison, the impeccable word made "Topics" a model of the vanishing essay form. Without blushing, his admirers, from Franklin P. Adams to Lin Yutang, compared Strunsky...
Altogether, Springfield has compiled an 8 and 15 record, which is about the same as the Crimson's, at least if you want to consider things percentage-wise. But those eight wins include victories over the usually impotent regional opposition, such as Clark University...
Many a Socialist pooh-poohed the result, but from the Manchester Guardian, Labor's wise friend, came a sharp, cautioning admonition: "An astonishing period of immunity from the natural ills of the political flesh is over. . . . Camlachie's chief warning is. . . that a government candidate cannot even rouse the slums...