Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eastern Europe. But Corps Diplomatique still seems most at home in its social column, "Embassy Row," served up with heady whiffs of the old monde élégant: "The other day we met Baroness van Boetzelaer in what Milton called the best company: alone. . . . Emerson's wisdom that art teaches us manners and abolishes haste attains its perfect example in the First Lady of Washington's Diplomatic Corps [Brazilian Sculptress Senhora Maria Martins...
...hearing trouble.) But they had the main thing-a real Shakespearean robustiousness. In Part I they contrived a fine balance between the historical scenes and the humorous ones, a telling contrast between that arch-romantic and exemplar of heraldic honor, Hotspur, and that arch-realist and epitome of worldly wisdom, Falstaff. And they had for this two brilliant actors...
Students itching to pass along their accumulated course experience will get a long-delayed chance to share their wisdom with initiates today at lunch when questionnaires for the first Crimson Confidential Guide since 1942 will be distributed in the dining halls...
...Enter to grow in wisdom, but after eleven go around by the main gate." So might be inscribed the granite arch above Wigglesworth Gate. Today this gate stands as a continual source of frustration to the returned men of Harvard who are doomed to live in the Yard...
Died. Count Hermann Keyserling, 65, German philosopher-critic (The Travel Diary of a Philosopher), founder of the Darmstadt "School of Wisdom"; in Innsbruck, Austria. The Nazis hated the bearded mystic for his anti-nationalism, in 1942 declared him "unworthy to represent the German spirit"; U.S. lecture audiences of the '20s loved him despite his tart depictions of the U.S. as a humorless, soulless, overly intellectual matriarchate...