Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when I was testing for Glenn L. Martin at Cleveland, I often asked him to fly with me. His standard reply: "I'd like to, but my bankers won't let me." . . . Glenn had done much flying in the early days, but had increased in wisdom and in favor with God, man and the bankers and now made all his sales trips to Washington by train...
...parodied and neglected by the part of the West that most needed his teachings. Occidental understanding of Confucius, difficult to come by in any edition, gains in the Modern Library's reprint, as a handsome gift book, of Dr. Lin Yutang's selection of Confucian sayings (The Wisdom of Confucius...
Order and Disorder. What Western readers may get from The Wisdom of Confucius, and what Chinese do not emphasize, is the sense of constant hazard in Confucius' search for a wise sovereign...
...body on the woodland trails of his native New Brunswick, whose forests and streams he exalted in poetry. A World War I veteran, he left behind 67 volumes of verse, fiction, biography, history, including such prose works as The Kindred of the Wild, The Feet of the Furtive, Wisdom of the Wilderness...
...condensation and synthesis, inspired when its source materials are inspired, slowgoing when the mass of detail is incorporated at the expense of color and warmth. The Duke is also salted with the Tory aphorisms of a simple man who did not know that what he said was wisdom...