Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Economics, Communism, and Astrology were relegated to the same class as occult sciences, English was a perennial favorite. Who wanted to learn about money? Everyone had plenty. And there were Bliss Perry and Copey and Kirsopp Lake and Kitty and John L. Lowes bubbling over with words of wisdom. They played to standing room only...
Something indomitable stirs in every human spirit at the thought of the old fighter for freedom - his life threatened, his work undone - dictating in blindness to his dull daughters the wisdom of his total defeat: What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support ; That to the highth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justifie the wayes...
...Langford Park. Their small apartment is carefully decorated according to the rules in Art in Everyday Life. Even their hobbies are collaborative: taking pictures with Leica cameras, making pewter plates and hand-printed draperies. To University of Minnesota home economists their prim, judicious maxims are cultured pearls of wisdom. Samples...
There is not one decent, sensible story in Presenting Moonshine. Author John Collier is crazy as a hoot owl. But perched on the gnarled limb of satire, he blinks down with dry wisdom at a world much crazier than he. Effortlessly he glides into madness...
...going into this war or by staying out. . . . I hold that the United States can better serve suffering humanity by staying out." Massrs. Conant and Hutchins are equally valiant guards of the best in American universities, but as a formulator of national policy Dr. Hutchins shows the greater wisdom...