Word: wising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Andromeda Strain. Robert Wise translated Michael Crichton (recent Harvard grad)'s sci-fi novel into a cool and canny thriller. An alien micro-organism threatens to destroy the human race in this 1971 film. CH. 4. 9 p.m. Color...
Essential to the wise use of these skills are certain qualities of mind. Although each reader may compile his own list, let me offer a few illustrations. I would include the quality of open-mindedness--a respect for other points of view as well as a tolerance for ambiguity growing out of the realization that many subjects and problems give rise to a variety of respectable opinions rather than right and wrong answers. I would also mention a respect for facts and a willingness to pursue them even to uncomfortable conclusions. I would add the quality of commitment--a willingness...
...life when they no longer have their careers to sustain them. The point of encouraging serious intellectual pursuits, however, is not simply to enrich the hours away from work, important as that may be. Without a breadth of interests, one may lack the learning and imagination to make the wise and creative judgments that no amount of professional competence can guarantee. In Harold Taylor's words: "Liberal education in its true sense is not an education which you get over with in order to go on to an adult preoccupation with professional academic studies. It is the source of ideas...
...paper the Federal Communications Commission's 1970 rule sounded, like an edict of Solon, wise beyond quibble. During the four hours of prime TV time from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. (E.S.T.), the networks would be allowed only three hours, with the remaining time reserved for local stations. The local stations would be forced to come up with their own programming, the FCC reasoned, and hitherto untapped creative energies would be released. Said Commissioner Nicholas Johnson when the rule was announced: "I think television ought to be like a typewriter that's available to everyone...
Solitude passes from master to master like a pliant zombie. She and other slaves become, as one wise old black says, "puppets in the white man's dream." When the French Revolution reaches Guadeloupe, the slaves are freed and the plantations burned. But in 1802 a treaty between France and England reopens the seas to the sugar trade, and bondage returns. Eventually Solitude joins the scattering of rebels, hunts her hunters in a trance of fury and becomes something of an island legend...