Word: wising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...park police were indulgent. "Camping?" asked an officer at 1 o'clock one morning. "I don't see any camping." Finally Government lawyers, presumably having decided that arresting several hundred men who had fought in Viet Nam would be politically un wise, went back to Judge Hart and asked him to rescind the injunction. An indignant Hart did so, observing: "The judiciary has been degraded by this whole affair. I don't think it could have been handled worse." He added: "You have put the Viet Nam veterans in a situation of openly defying the courts...
...overly protective of his wife's honor as Sparkish is negligent of Alithea's. Keeping his country wife under lock and key. Pinchwife confidently declares, "I understand the town." The audience takes enormous delight when the young, inexperienced Margery defeats the old coot, who thinks himself so wise...
Thereafter, coincidence takes control. "1 am Chance the gardener" is heard by the woman as "I am Chauncey Gardiner." When she brings him home for first aid and her husband asks Chance about his business, the simpleton's candid replies are interpreted as wise metaphors. When the President meets Chance while visiting the industrialist, he asks his opinion of the depressed stock market. "In a garden," says Chance, "growth has its season ... as long as the roots are not severed, all will be well." The President uses the line on TV and credits Chauncey Gardiner. The press assumes...
Laszlo Pasztor '73, co-chairman of SJP, said last night, "We hope many of the radicals will be in Washington and will let us have our counter teaching in peace. But we're very tight time-wise. If we can't get a definite list of speakers by the end of the month, then we probably won't hold...
...knows as well what to expect from Sagan by now, a fact that has led to a certain amount of critical condescension. But what she delivers, though slight, is well made, wise and often funny entertainment, a relatively rare product these days...