Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking before approximately 400 members of this year's graduating class and assorted friends and relatives, President Conant called for an American "national solidarity" in order that the United States can both "make our democracy work here at home" and "conduct our foreign affairs with farsighted wisdom, understanding, and, above all, courage...
This Important Epoch. Said Wilhelmina: "I must accept reality, and though I know full well that man proposes and God disposes, I think that in the interests of you all and the Empire the government should be confided to Juliana, who apart from the wisdom of insight is favored by her age with fresh youthful forces at her disposal...
...engaging kind of romantic movie that Hollywood seems to have lost its knack for. The setting is Old (turn-of-the-century) Vienna. The story: what happens when romantic love collides with fly-by-night love. The manner of telling is a blend of nostalgia and sad worldly-wisdom...
Hyacinth, who has secretly sworn to carry out the assassination of the duke, begins to have his doubts about the wisdom of destroying the social order. It is this change of mind that becomes the central development of the novel. Ironically, it is the princess who has given him a taste for the culture that revolution would destroy. In the end, he sees the princess give herself to his best anarchist friend. Overwhelmed by the ironies that smother him, Hyacinth commits suicide with the bullet that was meant for the duke...
...Wisdom. The U.S. was strong; it was generous. Was it also wise? History would have to judge; at least the people of the U.S. were showing their capacity to learn. Though they were still busy with their own affairs, Americans were beginning to understand the hard lesson they had first learned at Pearl Harbor: that they were also citizens of the world and that good citizens are responsible citizens...