Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Power. As it had once looked to London and to Rome, the world now looked to the U.S. for hope and leadership. It was an open secret in the rest of the world that 20th Century civilization would be guided in large part by the heart, the wisdom and the power of the U.S. The secret was spread in every foreign newspaper, before every meeting of foreign ministers, repeated sometimes with hope and gratitude, sometimes with sneers and hatred...
...Whereas the Faculty of Harvard College, with unprecedented barbarity and oppression, saw fit, in their asinine wisdom, to administer public admonition to the Sodality for absenting themselves from Cambridge during the whole night, serenading, Resolved not to play at the coming exhibition." Apparently a full punch bowl mellowed the members for they played at the concert nevertheless...
...meet this crisis the West must know and measure this shrewd exploitation of Europe's fears. It can never assume that the Ruhr miner or the Normandy peasant, for all his rude wisdom, will shrug off a Moscow overture as just an empty political move. He will never surrender his worn hope for peace simply because political sophisticates of the Western capitals say that Moscow is just up to its old tricks. The sophisticates will have to expose the tricks. If that is done with clarity and integrity, the West need have no fear. Precisely because the miner...
Next week Hogarth House will publish (at $2.95) The Sexual Conduct of Men and Women, by Norman Lockridge (author of Bachelors' Quarters and editor of The Golden Treasury of the World's Wit and Wisdom). Says a dust-jacket blurb: "We did not plan to publish the contents of this book for some time to come . . . [but] excitement caused by the recent appearance of the Kinsey Report has suddenly brought most of these doubtful factors into a maturity of public interest. . ." Sample spicy headings in Lockridge's work: "What a Man Expects of a Mistress," "Good Women...
Although not present at the meeting Monday evening, I would like to express an opinion as one who sympathizes with those who interrupted Mr. Eisler but doubts the wisdom of their action. I share their natural indignation at the misuse of the words "liberal" and "civil rights," as I share their revulsion towards those groups who try to cloak an anti-preparedness campaign under the attractive phrase, "Save the Peace," and then expound the party line on Palestine and Mr. Wallace's candidacy. I admit that to take an attitude of amused contempt is a temptation. However, it seems...