Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tragedy] underlines the truth that human hopes must measure themselves against unfeeling necessity . . . Tragic wisdom is the knowledge of evil . . . By purging man of the original sin of self-sufficiency, tragedy makes him sociable and compassionate . . so that he can love without craving, strive without fretfulness, rise to success without falling into pride, fail without losing heart...
...Philosophy jolts people out of their easy complacency by revealing how precarious are the foundations of customary belief: Philosophy is self-knowledge and selfcriticism; it is the transition from wishfulness to wisdom, from innocence to maturity . . . In Plato's words, the philosopher has a view of all time and all existence. With such a perspective, he can put success in its place and failure in its place, and so be unshaken either by misfortune or good fortune...
Many Christians are convinced that the finest Christian leader thus far produced by the 20th Century was William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury when he died in 1944. His faith, courage, wisdom, humor, leadership, humility-and holiness-made him the rare combination of a prelate who was also a prophet. Those who knew Temple will never forget him. For those who did not know him, there is now a fine full-length portrait: Dean F. A. Iremonger's official biography, William Temple (Oxford University Press; 663 pages; 25 shillings...
Good Selling. Most publishers have seen the wisdom of playing ball or selling out. Only four or five papers throughout the country are still in opposition to the regime. Of B.A.'s twelve leading dailies, ten are in the Peronista editorial groove; only the conservative Prensa and Nation hold out, under pressure...
...what they are fighting for: the founders of the nation had had a vision-"unity and common understanding there had been ... but the mockers came. And the deniers were heard. And vision and hope faded . . . yet there always arose enough of reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom, to carry the nation through to a fresh start...