Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barren one, for democracy can work for evil as well as good. "Democracy is ... simply a means to certain ends . . . And those ends, Justice and Freedom, are in large measure the products of religious faith, of the religious conviction that the human person has dignity and rights because divine wisdom so ordained ... I do not think that academic freedom could long prosper under King Demos, if Democracy should succeed in casting off its religious sanctions...
...Commager's theme that "everyone ought to dissent from everything for dissension's sake . . , is all a negation, praising liberty because liberty gives opportunity to demolish ancient things, and praising the Academy because the Academy may be utilized as a safe corner from which to dislodge the wisdom of our ancestors...
...tying down U.S. strength; to present to the Communists a front that is both adamant and flexible. Since many of the pressures on Dulles sprang from exaggerated jitters about World War III, his important task was bound to be made easier as the free world absorbs Churchill's wisdom and learns the real meaning of its years of opportunity: relative safety lies in greater anti-Communist strength...
...City, Wis. in 1952. Editor Gore filled the Star with tried-and-true reader-catching personals, a homespun "Star Dust'' column, and two columns of editorials under a good-humored standing slogan (H. L. Mencken's "Every little squirt thinks he's a fountain of wisdom"). The Star's circulation climbed to 3,200, and the paper turned a neat profit...
...those who still question the wisdom of going ahead with the H-bomb, Teller has words of firm faith: "We would be unfaithful to the tradition of Western civilization if we were to shy away from exploring the limits of human achievement. It is our specific duty as scientists to explore and to explain . . . The construction of the thermonuclear weapon was a great challenge to the technical people of this country. To be in possession of this instrument is an even greater challenge to the free community in which we live. I am confident that, whatever the scientists are able...