Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 3,550,000 U.S. children go to old-fashioned country schools with only one or two teachers. Whether the schooling they get is good or not depends largely on the wisdom and understanding of these teachers (who usually earn less than $100 a month...
...Francis Henry Taylor set out to get it. To open the Met's Diamond Jubilee building campaign (the Museum will be 75 next February), Taylor persuaded General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower to come to Manhattan to receive an honorary life fellowship in the Museum, because "through [his] wisdom and foresight many irreplaceable art treasures were saved...
...Modern Burdens. Particularly, the Met does not wish to burden itself with European moderns, and is willing to leave the wisdom of its decision to history. According to Director Taylor, "a shallow, meaningless eclecticism has been . . . to a large extent the fashion of the past three generations." Traditionally, the Met has taken a cautious view of contemporary art: it possesses 27 Rembrandts and no Picassos. Its collection of 15th to 19th Century paintings is the most comprehensive on this side of the Atlantic...
...drew for us had been keenly perceived and boldly executed. Your disciples had bravely threshed unordered knowledge and had given us the grain to staff our life. But you seldom feel the sweat and blasphemy of living, while we anxiously look for earthly applications of our growing wisdom. We lost the freshness of your teachings while wrestling with a less sympathetic but no less worthy teacher. We admire the ideals you have held out to us, but we do not find the lessons complete...
...shrewd, soft-spoken Confucian. As chairman of the Council, China's mellow statesman seemed to remember the wisdom of the Analects: "Men are born pretty much alike, but through their habits they gradually grow further and further apart from each other." Imperturbable, patient, conciliatory, Dr. Quo sought to bridge the chasm of habits. His logic was simple and overwhelming (when Gromyko asked why the chairman had halted discussion, Dr. Quo answered: "I have no more speakers on my list...