Word: wise
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Alec Guinness A PASSAGE TO INDIA. In David Lean's 1984 classic adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, the British actor faithfully portrayed Professor Godbole, an ascetic Hindu wise...
...owners of the potentially valuable land were members of an emerging power elite in Denver, who proceeded to orchestrate formidable civic support for the airport project. The main boosters: developer Bill Walters, a colleague of Neil Bush's and then president of the Denver Chamber of Commerce; Michael Wise, then chairman of Silverado; and Larry Mizel, chairman of M.D.C...
...bureaucracy. But, at that point, why didn't he pick up a phone and find out what the hell was going on? What else is the point of being nice and being President at the same time? That's what L.B.J. would have done -- not a nice person, affability-wise, but someone who connected his private heart and his public role in more than just talk...
...arts community is far from unanimous in thinking that refusing NEA money is wise. Says Jack O'Brien, artistic director of the Old Globe Theater in San $ Diego: "I think it plays right into the hands of the enemies of the NEA. It allows them to say, 'See, these arts groups don't even need it.' The central point is that this system works. By and large, the money goes to the right places, and after two decades there hasn't been a hint of fraud or scandal. What other Government program can say that...
...spun out of control, where pregnant children have to be forced to talk to their parents. Who would not wish for a Father Knows Best kind of life, where teenagers delayed becoming parents until they were no longer children, where youngsters in trouble could turn to families full of wise advice, where rape and incest were unknown and abortion was an unusual remedy for a rare misfortune? But dealing with the world as it is, the Justices, like most Americans, still find themselves struggling for a messy middle ground...