Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent and honest; judges, above all, fired with consuming zeal to mete out justice according to law to every man, woman and child that may come before them and to preserve individual freedom against any aggression of government; judges with the humility born of wisdom, patient and untiring in the search for truth, and keenly conscious of the evils arising in a workaday world from any unnecessary delay-judges with all these attributes are not easy to find, but which of these traits dare we eliminate if we are to hope to attain evenhanded justice...
...could, in the next life, also remit such a punishment; everything depends on His free will; but He has never granted it and will never do so ... Such a divine disposition is in no way contrary to any of God's attributes; neither to His justice nor His wisdom, neither to His mercy nor His goodness...
...oppressors, was just the kind of lonely, romantic figure of danger the British needed in World War I to offset the unrelieved, anonymous four-year horror of the Western Front. His saga became legend. Hailed by many as a masterpiece, his own monumental, turgid and mystic Seven Pillars of Wisdom became the bible of a widespread cult of Lawrence admirers, whose most romantic ideals were justified when their unpredictable hero renounced the world at the pinnacle of his fame to join the R.A.F. as lowly Aircraftman Ross...
...face of a burgeoning professionalism in the national movement toward more and more 'guidance,' Harvard prefers a faith in the wisdom of the regular Faculty for counseling work, Perry explains, "We think that a Faculty of outstanding men can overcome the limitations of time load and scholarly concentration and do a better job of human guidance than would a growing bureaucracy of specialists...
...Wisdom Series (Sun. 5 p.m.. NBC). With Photographer Edward Steichen...