Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Zechariah Chafee Jr. was a brilliant undergraduate at Brown University, I was his Dean. Through the ensuing years, I have followed his career with warm admiration and gratitude. But now, speaking as one who might be called to appear before a "committee," I find myself doubting the wisdom of the advice which he gives...
...only a legal requirement but also a principle of wisdom and good citizenship for an individual called before a court, grand jury, or a legislative committee, to answer questions frankly and honestly. The constitutional privilege to keep silent is an exception to the legal obligation to testify, but even when the legal privilege is available, there are times when it is best not exercised...
...legal advice of the letter discusses what it calls "a principle of wisdom and good citizenship." In this field persons act and, hence, must be advised, not as individuals protecting their own "rights" and "privileges," but as citizens seeking to do their "duty" to their country...
...logical relevance of this second statement I find very hard to determine. What guidance does one draw from a general principle which, at the specific point in question, is recognized as outlawed by the Constitution? And further, when we are talking about "wisdom and good citizenship," the matter at issue is not a "legal privilege" but a "moral duty." And, that being true, there are no "times when it is best not exercised...
...Sister Jeanne d'Arc's formula: begin with the Gospels and the Psalms, following with the books of the Old Testament arranged by chronology, e.g., Ruth with Judges, and ending with Machabees and Wisdom; close with the New Testament Epistles and The Apocalypse...