Word: sageness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volumes to date) of British life from World War I to the present. There are no "new men" in these two books, and none of those reflections on the rift between the "two cultures," scientific and humanist, that have recently catapulted Snow into the role of a space-age sage. But the hero and narrator is, as always, Lewis Eliot-a wily courtier of success, in law, college, and government administration, and a kind of modern Polonius...
...Alan Lomax. He is also an experienced, politically adroit Government adviser on scientific matters, with a staggering list of credits: he directed development of an early-warning radar system, planned the instrumentation for the Bikini A-bomb test, helped develop the Distant Early Warning radar line and the SAGE communications system. As professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T. and director of its Research Laboratory of Electronics, Wiesner is both an administrator and a theorist...
...lofty disdain. But General Phoumi made no attempt to pursue, airily declared that his jungle garrisons would take care of Kong Le along the way. General Phoumi's only announced policy is to "transform all Laotians into Laotians" (i.e., non-Communists). To which Prince Boun Oum added this sage advice: "One can get medicine even out of poisoned mushrooms...
...life into his statue Galatea through love. It was typical of Bernard Shaw, one of the last of the great 19th century rationalist optimists, that in his Pygmalion, Professor Henry Higgins teaches Eliza Doolittle into existence. Give Shaw an actress, a breed he regarded as intrinsically brainless, and the sage would begin playing post office, or frequently postcard. Absence definitely made Shaw's heart grow fonder, and for added emotional insurance the women were al ways married, as was he. The two most celebrated of these epistolary romances involved Mrs. Pat Campbell and Ellen Terry, but the headiest, cranially...
Tree into Body. The earliest tablets showed only symbols of the sage: his footprint on a mountainside, the great Bo tree, or the wheel. Gradually, the footprints grew into feet, the tree into a body. The artists never used a human model. Instead, each artist studied existing statues or paintings, and when he had the image firmly in mind, he would produce a work of his own. Though the art of Thailand has in a sense been a perpetual act of copying, the finest artists could not help leaving their personal stamp...