Word: wising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kerry Saravelas calls Joe Tyree "my most charismatic streetworker." A short but powerfully built black man in his middle thirties, Tyree is balding on top with a fuzzy growth around the sides and a twinkle in his eyes that give his face the look of a wise Bozo-The-Clown. He grew up in Cambridge and has been working with the kids here for years. Most of the kids seem to like him, although they think he sometimes works too much within the system...
There has always been a disconcerting rift in Jean Kerr's plays between the witty, wise and thoroughly honest statements she makes about domestic life and the artificial plot mechanics she adopts for the sake of happy endings...
Died. Joseph Ehrenreich, 65, promotion-wise president of Ehrenreich Photo-Optical Industries, Inc., whose 1954 trade agreement with the Japanese firm of Nippon Kogaku established Ehrenreich as the sole U.S. importer of 35-mm. Nikon cameras (now $43 million in U.S. sales) and helped open the American market to Japanese optical and scientific equipment; of an apparent heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...dominating theme in both Grendel and The Wreckage of Agathon is individual freedom within a mass consciousness. Agathon chose total individual freedom, rebelling against the Spartans' strict sense of uniformity. And although he died, his ideals achieve a harmonious serenity with the hopes of his more worldly-wise student, Demodokos. Grendel, too, embodies a kind of selfhood, which is more barbaric and cynical: he believes completely in himself only because there is no hope of being accepted within a greater whole. It's hard to suppress sympathy for this Cain-like character, but in the end the victory of mankind...
...back home-the Follies represented only one aspect of official press policy. Veteran Viet Nam reporters agree that almost everything distorted or left unsaid at the Follies was readily obtainable in the field. More important, the U.S. military was usually willing to transport reporters to the action. Says Don Wise of the London Daily Mirror: "You were taken wherever you wanted to go, to see whatever you wanted to see." Horst Faas, who won two Pulitzer Prizes as an A.P. photographer, agrees that it was easier to cover the war than to cover less violent stories in parts of Europe...