Word: wising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Zarin, a staff writer for The New Yorker, agrees that writing poetry is a long and difficult process that is often unrewarding for the artist. "Poetry is not a career choice," she says. "It certainly wouldn't be a very wise...
...mature enough and wise enough to accept that the deepest meaning of solidarity requires that we consider ourselves as if we all were infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), that we are all living with AIDS...
...very confident," Wise says from his firm's small suite of offices in this affluent suburb. "1990 is going to be the inflection point for us, when this really takes...
...Wise says, the testing stage is over, and the future for chicken contact lenses looks sunny-side...
...Holtz ability to crack wise, usually at his own expense, has kept his teams loose. But the self-deprecation also allows him to ward off praise, which he feels is the father of complacency. "When it's over, maybe I'll sit - down and say, 'Gee, we did something pretty terrific,' " he says. "But it's just not my nature." "He doesn't really accept compliments," says his son Kevin, a student at Notre Dame law school. When Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh 45-7 in October, Kevin called to congratulate him. What did Dad say in reply? "Kevin...