Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation: "Having played a major role in world events of the last quarter century, he has devoted his genius to record them with the scholar's insight and the philosopher's wisdom...
...Wisdom & Wine. Before the court were the 1953 cases of Dorothy Krueger Smith and Clarice Covert. Mrs. Smith, daughter of wartime Army General Walter Krueger, was found guilty by a court-martial of stabbing her husband, an Army colonel, to death in their quarters in Japan. A court-martial convicted Mrs. Covert of the ax murder of her husband, an Air Force master sergeant, in England. Last year the Supreme Court ruled that their military convictions and life sentences for murder were valid, with Justices Tom Clark, Harold Burton, Stanley Reed. Sherman Minton and John Marshall Harlan in the majority...
...speeches Mao rejected the doubts of some Chinese bureaucrats as to the wisdom of his policy of "let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend": "Marx never said that he should not be criticized. To those who do not follow that teaching of Marx, I would address an old saying: he who does not allow himself to be criticized during his life will be criticized after death." And last week, as an encouragement to some understandably timid flowers, the Peking regime released Author Hu Feng, whose arrest in 1955 was the keystone of a campaign...
When Rumplestiltskin graduated from high school he was very wise in the ways of the world, and he knew what he wanted. Since Harvard was supposed to be a center of worldly wisdom, he came to Cambridge bent upon improving his mind...
...Potterized by his wife, a ruthless practitioner of "one-upmanship." The chance of liberation comes in the figure of a beautiful, boyish girl artist named Rain Carter, who is commissioned to paint the portrait of the school's worldly retired headmaster. She comprises all the values-art, gaiety, wisdom-that have passed...