Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Security Council, yielded the floor to Malik, the Soviet delegate. Once more he blamed the Korean war on U.S. "aggressors" and their South Korean "vassals." When that speech was over, Tsiang asked, with Confucian irony: "Now that the president of the Security Council has had the benefit of the wisdom of the representative of the Soviet Union, he should be in a position to give that ruling." The chamber echoed with laughter. Malik still stalled...
Poet-Historian Viereck, true to the essence of anti-Babbittry, thinks the country is going to the dogs because of them. A junior anti-Babbitt, however, he mongers new-style stereotyped cliches to put across his point. Naive domestic Babbitts without any breeding will continue to prefer cleverness to wisdom...
...Saving. Besides making speeches, Congress worked hard. Without changing a word, the House Foreign Affairs Committee rushed through the Senate's bill authorizing $1,222,500,000 for second-year military assistance to foreign nations ("Woefully inadequate," declared Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland with post-Korean wisdom), and called for a Pacific pact modeled on the North Atlantic pact. The Senate Finance Committee, after talking it over with Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, regretfully shelved the bill to cut excise taxes. Thirty-five Senators (including five Democrats) backed a 10% cut in all non-defense appropriations...
...fashionable but because it's true." Such a reverence "would work a moral revolution deeper and more helpful than all the shallow artistic and political and economic revolts of our panting apostles of progress. It would be a moral revolution against that inner smirk which prefers cleverness to wisdom...
Sonata No. 4, Op. 102 No. 1 (Artur Schnabel, pianist; Pierre Fournier, cellist; Victor, 4 sides 45 r.p.m.). This sober and somber sonata anticipates-but ranks with-the last great quartets. Schnabel's playing, as always, has wisdom and warmth; French Cellist Fournier can not quite match the playing of Pablo Casals in an earlier record. Performance and recording: excellent...