Word: wising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major figure in the black oral poetry movement. Hers is a committed social rage. She is capable of scalding rhetoric, but the artist in her keeps interrupting. For one thing, she is a natural fabulist. A tirade on colonialism turns into a series of irresistible parables about the wise and natural black man faced with the petty, scheming honky. Also, she cares too much about language not to kid her own fire breathing, at least occasionally: "I'm essentially a hustler because I'm essentially Black American and that carries essentially a hustling mentality (if you can essentially...
...quality of his work. His seventy-fifth novel is as fresh and as funny as his fiftieth, or his first, and not very different from either. Wodehouse has been lucky and talented enough to have found a formula for comedy that works; and he has been wise enough not to deviate from that formula in well over half a century of writing...
Reasonable men can, of course, differ as to the precise limits of opposition activity in a university community, but the signers of the petition were certainly within their rights in publicizing their thinking on this matter. Surely we do not have to defer to the wise men of Dunster House for our cues in this regard. If we did, I would wager that academic freedom at Harvard would be threadbare. Martin Kllson Professor of Government
...Heber and Garber admit that the experimental children have become "test-wise" and that the differences between the two groups could disappear as they grow older. Still, the psychologists conclude, the youngsters have accomplished so much that "it is difficult to conceive of their ever being comparable to the lagging control group...
FOLLIES. Apart from being dazzlingly lovely, this musical is wise in heart. Stephen Sondheim's music and lyrics beguile the ear while seducing the mind, and the Corybantic ardor of Michael Bennett's dancers is a sight for glad eyes...