Word: wising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's display of Olympian unconcern a wise course? To some, it seemed that the President was once again showing an unwillingness to follow through on major decisions. Through his presidency, they argued, Nixon has sounded the trumpet on one program after another?welfare reform, the governmental reorganization of his "New American Revolution," revenue sharing?and then lost interest in making them work. To engineer a turnaround of the U.S. economy, his critics charge, Nixon must forsake the security of the television screen and reassure doubters in person...
...this time the Old Man has been transmogrified into a wise and mellow padrone, and the story shifts a generation. Daughter Anna inherits her mother s masochism; her sister Margaret gets her father's greed. As for Robert, he drinks, chases women and wonders what the Old Man ever saw in him. The reader can only agree...
...cannot help approving of President Nixon's proposed trip to Red China. Knee-jerk anti-Communists will quote the history of broken treaties by Communist countries as an excuse for isolating this political dogma, but the wise man uses history to his advantage and does not make himself a prisoner of it. The past should make us wary, but it should not paralyze our will to seek a better world through constant reappraisal of our own policies as well as those we oppose...
...possibly appeal to the young, to ethnic groups and to those who live in cities, where the pollution problem is worst. His message, "This land is your land . . . Keep it clean!", is not exactly a zinger, either. The U.S. Forest Service has countered with Woodsy the Owl, presumably a wise and likable bird whose message, "Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute," may have a better chance of reaching children; they in turn might be counted on to badger their parents about littering and similar offenses...
...statements in the summer issue of Environmental Quality magazine. Last week he delivered his magnum opus, a poem cycle set to Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, which was played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl. As the music soared, Henry versed about news-wise kangaroos, pacifist elephants, and hens and roosters who have been brutalized by technology...