Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed Serge Koussevitzky from Paris in the 1920's. They have reached an age where the music of Beethoven's late period is no longer more sound, and Saturday in the Adagio of the Ninth Symphony they captured that full sense of infinite sadness, complete resignation, and ultimate wisdom that is the essence of the mature Beethoven...
...Sample (an apostrophe to Stalin by the Soviet Union's late Novelist Alexey Tolstoy): Thou, bright sun of the nations, The unsinking sun of our times, And more than the sun, for the sun has no wisdom...
...world needs as never before the leadership of humane, educated men, and that leadership must come from the generation of men now passing through the University. The University is the repository of the records of all that is best in Man, and the faculty are men through whom the wisdom of those records should be communicated to other men. Can professors have any greater duty than to teach? I think not. Nere fiddled while Rome burned. Let it not be said of Harvard professors that they did likewise. Sincerely, Gabriel Jackson...
...rule of outsiders, could become a nation in the Western sense, the achievement would be one of the greatest triumphs of history. In E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, a Moslem character, Dr. Aziz, recalled that the great Mogul Emperor Akbar had worked with tolerance and wisdom to unite India, had even attempted to devise a new unifying faith. But, says Dr. Aziz: "Nothing embraces the whole of India-nothing, nothing, and that was Akbar's mistake...
...Critic Adams,( Robert Frost said it all when he wrote that a poem "begins in delight and ends in wisdom. [It ends in] a clarification of life-not necessarily a great clarification . . . but in a momentary stay against confusion...