Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winnipeg last week, the University of Manitoba's Chester Duncan, lecturer in English, told the Winnipeg Poetry Society: "Our well-known Canadian laconicism is not always concealed wisdom, but a kind of dumbness, a frustration, a between-ness. We are continually on the verge of something but we don't quite get there. We haven't discovered what we are or where we're going and therefore we haven't much...
...should be more so if too much is not demanded of it too soon. General Education itself is still a dark question--the Committee has not yet opened full throttle, and even when it does, obtaining a well-rounded knowledge will still depend largely on the individual's own wisdom and personal initiative...
Romantic Heroes. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were romantics, Jeffersonian idealists, enthusiastic, ardent, poetic, hopeful, trusting. They named the tributaries of the Jefferson River Philosophy, Wisdom and Philanthropy. But their men, the soldiers and hunters in the party, were down-to-earth, matter-of-fact characters. They liked to race ponies with the Indians, carouse with their squaws, dance square dances whenever they made camp...
...different from the rest of men in nationality, speech or customs; they do not live in states of their own, nor do they use a special language, nor adopt a peculiar way of life. Their teaching is not the kind of thing that could be discovered by the wisdom or reflection of mere active-minded men; in deed, they are not outstanding in human learning as others are. . . . They live, each in his native land - but as though they were not really at home there. They share in all duties like citizens and suffer all hardships like strangers. Every foreign...
...Communism threatens to perpetuate the evils of tyranny by enforcing the rule of a small minority party on the vast majority throughout the Balkans." said Mr. Markham. He added that the only methods capable of resolving the uncertainty and division of the nations must come from an extension of wisdom, humility, honesty, and kindness all of which totalitarianism poisons by its method and ideology...