Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having prepared their own destruction, Pelancey and Fingal are finally driven to half-ludicrous, half-pathetic efforts at confession and penance. Perhaps the worst of it, for Fingal, is seeing himself in his true identity, "in all its shabby unworthiness." Pelancey learns his bitter bit of wisdom: "What's the sense in running away, when you know that at the end o' the journey you'll meet yourself...
Perhaps one reason why so many people are dubious about the political wisdom of the U.W.F. is that the group only got going a short time ago. All of a sudden, it seemed, there were scores of bright young men telling everybody to hurry up and produce a world government before it was too late. Early world federalism smacked of wild-eyed student debaters fussing over the Culbertson method. And, in the beginning, at least, there were so many world government groups that the average citizen was slightly confused...
Cooper Union's official catalogue-comment avoided larger conclusions about the whole thing: "It seems safe to let the cat, as he is represented in the present display, speak for himself; safe, or at least the part of wisdom...
Strout's solution was short. "Put men of integrity, wisdom, and with a sense of decency and fair play on the committees and most of the troubles will vanish overnight," he said. He urged that reforms come from within Congress itself...
...employed that old device of his to give his characters and his lines a child-like and pristine quality: they speak in the indicative tense (after all, in Those Days had they yet discovered the other tenses?) and without contractions. This sometimes gives the false impression of wisdom to lines that would otherwise seem ordinary...