Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been bad, but she was an angel compared to that weakling Adam! Eve was the first protester. She protested because she didn't want to live in a fool's paradise which seemed good enough to Adam. Eve wanted knowledge and wisdom. Adam came out rather badly in that story...
...became a witch, was not a figure one would have expected to become the heroine of a widely popular novel. Yet she had the distinction of being the first choice of the Book of the Month Club in the U. S. This new novel, as poetic in its wisdom as the first, was lately chosen by the Literary Guild of America. Of Sylvia Townsend Warner herself very little is allowed to be known. She lives "alone in a house, with a big, black dog." She studies Tudor music, Roman ruins, believes in witches...
...much reduced by the elimination of the superfluous effort connected with the workings of a large and regularly prescribed course. The student could concentrate on his own difficulties, and develop his own abilities. The instructor would be called on more for the exercise of rare judgment and a sparing wisdom rather than the drudgery of correcting masses of papers and handing out ready made precepts...
...pleasure, even a triumph but now, through time, is a sacrifice and almost a desecration. It seems to cheapen. It is not always careful and discriminating, though in good hands it may be. It is the popularization of the man's name, the exposition of his works and wisdom for public consumption the creating of a "human" atmosphere about him, so that, though still not fully comprehended, scholarship may have a name in the land and an allurement that will draw men into its pursuit. Professor Alfred North Whitehed has long been established in scholarly fame. His publication of some...
...that,-reflection of the mind. Seven years, spent in a sanitarium in the Swiss Mountains-what can you expect of such an absurd period in a man's life? But that is what the book is written around, a wonderful book, full of contemplative thought, of dialectic discussion, of wisdom. It is the ripest of the author's works, it is his most German work. It may well be questioned whether it will ever be worthwhile to translate it-so much of art in language can hardly be transcribed into a foreign tongue. And yet it would be interesting...