Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Living-1948 (Sun. 4:35 p.m., NBC). Wisdom in the Streets, a documentary on public opinion polls...
...dear, when I could have taken many to wife, both with better fortunes and of noble family, I did not so choose but was enamoured of you . . .' Then immediately from these beginnings the husband shall open the way to a discourse on true wisdom with some circumlocutions on the vanity of riches...
Howard Brinton is a friendly little man with a fuzz of silvery hair and a serene face in which a profound wisdom of the spirit does not imply a complete innocence of the world. One day last week he was discussing the nature and purposes of Pendle Hill, the Quaker school and religious retreat near Philadelphia which he and his wife Anna Brinton have managed for the last twelve years. As he spoke, the folding doors opened, and through the somewhat austere room padded an East Indian woman in full native garb. Looking neither to right nor left, she went...
...described him as "perhaps the greatest of all impressionists in black & white." In color, Topolski's impressionism is more lurid than deft. He is at his best doing people. Shaw himself appears (in black & white) as a shaggy, willowy old pantaloon, ready to explode with the wit & wisdom of a ripe...
Quoting Cicero, DiMento, who is receiving a magna in Greek, said that the man elected must have "wisdom," "integrity," and "valor...