Word: wising
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three-acter called On the Runway of Life You Never Know What's Coming Off Next, a play that unfortunately contained its entire essence in the title and was never professionally produced. But now Kopit has prepared a new script for production next month off-Broadway, and Dad-wise he is only half a dozen picas off the peak. The new play, scheduled to go into Greenwich Village's Theatre de Lys, is called Asylum or What the Gentlemen Are Up To Not to Mention the Ladies...
...future of student government at the College may well depend on the actions of the year-old Harvard Council on Undergraduate Affairs as it meets tonight to elect a new slate of officers. Under wise and capable leadership, the HCUA has for the past year intentionally shunned fruitless controversy or political maneuvering, and instead sought out the only practical course open to student government in a community that is notoriously apathetic about student government...
Heavy on talk. Photo Finish needed to approximate the Shavian paradox or the Wildean epigram. But Ustinov's dialogue tends to be smart rather than sharp, cracks wise when it should be wise. Photo Finish is not about to take win or place in the dramatic sweepstakes, but it is a safe, friendly show...
...admiring constituents and "Buncombe Bob" to his Hill colleagues, who in two terms (1933-45) earned a well-deserved reputation as the Senate's champion international joy-junketer while voting its isolationist line; of cancer; in Asheville, N.C. A charming, five-times-married ladies' man and wise cracking speaker, "Our Bob" finally decided to retire in 1944 when words proved no longer enough, heeding one North Carolinian's remark: "In wartime you've got to give up luxuries. Bob is just about the easiest to give up I can think...
...with nothing to say, has to go to style," said the British author. After reading a parody of his own on C.S. Forester ("author of that singularly topical book, Death of the French"), Golding cited it as an example of "pure style" to point out the "advantage of being wise after someone else has done the event...