Word: wising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...level of the music on Sticky Fingers is consistently fine. I only wish that, as people, the Stones would wise up; but, as the movie Gimme Shelter proved, they are rich, contemptuous, and irresponsible. They've moved to the southern part of France now, for income tax purposes, and the shift will probably just isolate them even more from the people that make up their audience. It's a shame: it seems unlikely that the Stones will be with us in a few years when we boogaloo up the steps of the Capitol to seize state power...
...first to applaud progress if it is beneficial and wise; however, I do not like the direction the New Genetics is taking. Scientists should not start tampering with man, regardless of how high their intentions are. Any scientist who harbors a desire to be God has an astronomical ego and is to be greatly feared and watched...
Davis told reporters yesterday that Mayday leaders would meet this weekend to decide the format for a national antiwar conference "some time in the next several weeks." The conference, which will probably take place in Milwaukee, Wise, will make plans for continued resistance against the government until the war is over, Davis said...
...name and Echeverria's to an extent that Coke and Pepsi couldn't hope to match. For PRI, Echeverria just represents the next few years. The party has certainly chosen his successor already, and probably his successor's successor. The presidential term is six years long and PRI is wise in its choices. But it does not have a reputation for love of democracy. When in 1965 party chief Carlos Madrazo proposed a system for gubernatorial primaries in Mexican states he was ousted and several years later killed in a plane crash of mysterious origins. Mexican philosopher Octavio Paz compared...
...minute lecture was that "every intelligent person comes to a stage in life... when he begins to question himself as to what purpose is there in life." For in his prior existence, "whatever a person's position or condition in life might be, whether this is a wise man or a foolish man, whether this is an educated man or an illiterate man, if he knows not his life's purpose, then he remains discontented...