Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislative committee released its findings. It gave the prison a clean bill of health, restricted its criticism to the fact that the guards used profanity and "on occasions" slapped the prisoners. It asked that these practices stop. But for all the moderate words, Georgia (the state motto: Wisdom, Justice and Moderation) and the U.S. would search a long time before they found evidence to outweigh the act of 41 desperate...
...Tokyo the Exchange Student Association, an informal group of students who have studied abroad, decided to publish a few words of wisdom for the benefit of the 1,000 young Japanese who will spend next year in the U.S. Sample advice to the girls: "When an American man starts behaving wickedly to you, don't hesitate to slap him in the face. This works instantly in the Land of Ladies First." Advice to the men: "It's ladies first, of course, when you enter a car or a door or sit down. But on a stairway, be sure...
From prehistoric time onward man has been fascinated by the image of birds. The owl has been interpreted as the symbol of wisdom on the one hand and of evil on the other, the raven as a sign of death and of victory. To the Egyptians the hawk represented the sun god; to early Christians the goldfinch depicted the crucifixion. Seldom has this multiform fascination been better illustrated than in the 160 paintings, bronzes, jugs, vases and primitive musical instruments on show last week at the Seattle Art Museum, a display ranging from a bird-shaped Chinese ritual vessel done...
Kirk is no reactionary, is in fact considerably more liberal than many self-proclaimed liberals. But he is rightly impatient with those intellectuals who assume "that we were all born yesterday, and that a vulgar pragmatism ought to supplant the bank and capital of traditional wisdom." Like most honest thinkers, he values the best of man's past and rebels against the notion "that the end of man is gratification of carnal appetite." He is convinced that the "social order now exhibits the symptoms of advanced decay" and is moving into "an Age of Gluttony." Who is to check...
...suppose that the world's happiness is just around the corner. He can hardly be called an optimist, and he suffers from the built-in defect of all who distrust specific programs-he has none of his own to propose. But he has faith in the accumulated wisdom of the past, in the ultimate integrity of the individual, in a relationship between God and man that will give life a meaning it cannot otherwise have...