Word: wise
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Eskimos, the barren snowfields are alive with spirits, and their art prints are full of the mythological as well as the real (chief of the mystic artists is old [72], nearly blind Tudlik, the wise man of the Cape Dorset people). The jet-black raven circling overhead is an evil omen; the sea is the home of the mischievous mermaid-like sea goddess Talluliyuk, who lures the seal away from the hunter. And when the aurora borealis flickers overhead, the Eskimos know that the lights come from the dead playing with seal skulls...
Joey's voice is heard answering quietly from backstage: "I dunno. Dean Martin is drunk; Sammy Davis hadda go to da temple; Peter Lawford's out campaigning for his brother-in-law." Hopefully, the M.C. asks: "What's Frank doing?" Joey's answer is a wise snicker. Then he makes his entrance...
...Communist and certainly not an anti-Communist," but a violently anti-American nationalist being used by the Communists in an "intense" drive on Latin America. In Latin America, where Castro's prestige has been shrinking because of this fact, Ike's statement was cheered as wise handling of the problem...
Until the wise men could ruminate and conclude, most European leaders contained their optimism. But the proposed new community would have one overriding merit: through it, the U.S. would for the first time be linked to Europe by economic ties as formal and binding as the military ties of NATO...
...wise chief keeps a supply stuffed in a hidden lenaka, the hollowed horn of an antelope or ram, to smear on himself or members of his family when good fortune is most needed. Among the 650,000 Basuto, he who holds the lenaka holds power. Everyone agrees that no one has had more powerful medicine than Mantsebo Amelia Seeiso, Basutoland's portly, domineering Paramount Chieftainess...