Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Foreign Relations Committee was in the same statesmanlike frame of mind as it considered the $3.2 billion foreign aid authorization bill already passed by the House with only $339 million cut. Certain of the wisdom of continued aid, the committee restored $104 million of the cut. Even that cut was adopted apologetically as a necessary tactic to forestall deeper cuts when the bill hits the Senate floor. To prove good will, the committee even voted to let the President himself decide where the $235 million cut could best be shaved...
...Humes writes in a documentary, now-it-can-be-told style of a man who believes that he has the Government Printing Office at his tax-free disposal. Yet those who are prepared to do their own, rather than the novelist's job of winnowing a peck of wisdom out of a stockpile of fact will not be ill rewarded...
...Testament may not be "the fountain-head of English literature," nor even of divine wisdom, but any disillusionment with its message should not lead to an ignorance of its content. Certainly the beauty, truth, and relevance of the Bible are not so doubtful as many of the things which are promulgated as part of our liberal education...
...Hays-Coffin findings, the Ottawa Journal had only mock-serious despair. "The trouble, apparently, is that some stroke of cruel misfortune has placed Canadians, wise, virtuous, altruistic, full of grace, all but perfect in their thoughts, acts and general conduct, alongside a people who are imperfect, who lack our wisdom, idealism, grace and near-perfect behavior, leaving us in a mess. Are we not in danger of losing all sense of proportion-becoming in the process a sort of humorless cry-baby of the Western world...
...endearing attachment to the notion that there should be a Hoover in every White House explains much of the virginal optimism and defunct conservatism emanating from Washington. A recession, however is not a Phoenix generating its own resurrection, and wishful thinking is often an admission that the wells of wisdom have been filled with poverty-stricken nostalgia...