Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quest for Wisdom...
...novel concerned young love, and was set in a Harvard background. It described the attempt of a student here to achieve normal relations with the female sex. "The amatory relation still remains a matter of personal adjustment and personal wisdom," was Lewis' conclusion...
...standing. But the solons of university finance would do wrong to reject Mr. Hutchins' proposal in toto, without scanning it for possibilities of compromise. It might, for instance, be an excellent idea to preserve existing endowments intact while spending those which are made in the future. Whatever the economic wisdom of Mr. Hutchins's plan, educational institutions will be forced to adopt it if the investment market continues in its present passivity. Confronted with an ever diminishing income, the endowed college will start to nibble from its capital; shyly and furtively first, and more boldly as time progresses...
...Foolish? Professor Raymond Pearl, Johns Hopkins biologist, thought it might be a good idea to deprive people over 50 of the ballot, on the grounds that such persons are likely to be slugnutty and irresponsible. "The wisdom of the founding fathers," trumpeted he, "led them to the view that youngsters under 21 were, on the whole, too foolish to vote. But not having envisaged the possibility of such weird economic philosophies as 'ham & eggs' or '$200 a month,' it apparently never occurred to them that there might be an age beyond which people would also...
After his death Lenin was sanctified by Stalin. Joseph Stalin has gone a long way toward deifying himself while alive. No flattery is too transparent, no compliment too broad for him. He became the fountain of all Socialist wisdom, the uncontradictable interpreter of the Marxist gospel...