Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royal family's brief statement did not deny the fact of a palace rift. This being so, Dutch editors were discreetly doubtful of the wisdom of putting out any statement at all, but government authority answered that the need for it involved not the public but the principals themselves. It was, in a sense, a tacit admission that difficulties still exist in the House of Orange-Nassau...
Exit Babbitt. Mencken brought no such intuitive wisdom to economics or international affairs. He tried to laugh off the Depression as an invention of "charity racketeers," and he ignored Hitler as passing nonsense. Soon he and the Mercury were on the skids, and from 1933 until his 1948 stroke, he busied himself mainly with reminiscence (Newspaper Days) and scholarship (supplements to The American Language). Author Angoff skirts his lasting impact. Mencken, who detested democracy, ironically democratized U.S. life and art. He made Babbitt-land so culture-conscious that Babbitt disappeared. He lampooned frauds in high places so lustily that...
When '31 left to face the Depression on more serious terms, President Lowell sent the Class off with a plea for wisdom and a sense of personal responsibility. But it was a Baccalaureate sermon, and 1931 was probably more intent on other things.BEN TICKNOR '31, varsity football captain and All-American center...
Said Dwight Eisenhower: "I am more and more impressed as time goes on. Some people acquire wealth, some acquire experience and I suppose some even acquire wisdom. For me, I acquire anniversaries. Almost exactly four years ago to the minute, I left Orly Field to come home. I came home in response-very largely the response-to a call from you people-your forerunners in this same movement, your associates all over the United States...
Seek the reunification of Germany "as a neutral factor that can blunt the sharp edge of military bipolarity in Europe . . . I have always doubted the wisdom of the decision to rearm Western Germany...