Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...100th anniversary of Blakelock's birth with a retrospective show of his work. His, said the catalogue, was "one of the most tragic artists' lives ever recorded. Before we congratulate ourselves that it could not happen today, let us be sure that we have gained enough wisdom to recognize our gifted individuals no matter how far they may diverge from the norm...
...character is a young teacher (French Comedian Noël-Noël) who gets a job in a boys' reform school. Ruled over by boneheaded authoritarians and worse, the boys are well on their way towards becoming neurotics or criminals. Cage is simply the story, told with wisdom and humor, of how the new teacher opposes his bosses and wins over his pupils with the unpretentious methods of good sense, kindliness, and a talent for interesting children in singing. The picture is never as ambitious or exciting as the best of Torment, but it never loses...
...Road. By week's end, he was ready for the public. In Westminster's Central Hall, he delivered himself of the accumulated wisdom of a lifetime and of four days in Britain. The Truman Doctrine, he declared, is a "one-way road to war"; Britain's destiny is to "save the world" by refusing to support the Truman Doctrine, by refusing to side with the U.S. against Russia...
Singled out in the faculty report on General Education as due for some changes, the present advisory system has remained largely undisturbed by both the General Education Committee and its untutored advisees. Particularly in the social sciences, the advisor is not an indispensable man. Students seeking his wisdom have all too frequently found their questions better answered by table-talk acquaintances. This does not imply that some advisors have not helped their charges, for many have; nonetheless, the advisor-student relationship suffers from many inadequacies. Lack of confidence is enhanced by the advisor's frank inability to help the student...
...changed, improved, or come at in some hitherto undreamed-of-way-even by so humble a creature as himself, an inventor-and used as a chained force, if only one knew how. ... He had become conscious of anterior as well as ulterior forces and immensities and fathomless wells of wisdom and energy, and had enslaved a minute portion of them, that was all. But not here! Oh, no. Later...