Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody who cherished survival doubted the deep wisdom of exploring every U.N. byway or even, if there were the slightest chance that it would do any good, of discussing the subject with Stalin (the President denied that he was planning a direct approach to the Russians). But since the principle of the hydrogen bomb was also known to the Russians, temporizing was risky and might be fatal. The simple fact, unpleasant though it might be, was that if the Russians are likely to build an H-bomb, the U.S. will have to build...
...saved from any allegorical pallor or patness, from any insistent contrast of illusion with reality (e.g., romantic yearnings for the moon with realistic cultivation of gardens) by its doubling back on itself and by its gay, vigilant irony. Through the inspector, Giraudoux pokes merciless fun at literal-mindedness, practical wisdom, bureaucratic palaver. Yet he knows, and expresses with the sad sparkle of his wit, that man needs feet even more than wings, and must accept reality to survive. But there is yet another turn of the wheel: man need neither flee reality nor accept it; he can deliberately transform...
...Gootenberg charged that facts contained in Kimball's letter of January 13 "display an ignorance of the application of naval policy and a calculated evasion of the issue of the wisdom of an informer clause...
...would try to take Hong Kong itself.. Last week, the five-starred flag of Soviet China fluttered ominously in Hong Kong, but the Red army was still on the other side of the border'. How long they would stay there would depend in large measure on the wisdom Hong Kong's rulers displayed in the colony's latest labor crisis...
Wrote Shostakovich in the magazine Ogonek: "Many workers in the arts meet Stalin, and every one of them has been surprised by his immense understanding of art and the delicacy and depth of his wisdom and judgment." Stalin, he reported, had listened to many works entered in competition for a hymn of the Soviet Union, and "with surprising exactitude" put his finger on precisely what was wrong with each of them. "For composers," said Shostakovich, ". . . these meetings with the leader were a real school which left lifetime traces in their consciousness...