Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honor of the convention, the Secretary of the Navy (a lawyer himself) ordered the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Tarawa to lie off Boston, open for inspection. The Post Office dedicated a new purple 3? stamp, depicting the scales of justice, the owl of wisdom, the mirror of truth. A historical society put on display the records of the Salem witch trials. And the Statler Hotel thoughtfully stocked its rooms with such legal bedtime stories as a Nero Wolfe mystery in which the senior partner of a law firm gets knocked off (Murder by the Book...
...Republicanism is in evidence from the Keys of Florida to the mountains of Virginia. In Florida, Republican registration has increased more than 40% since November. In Louisiana, New Orleans Lawyer John Minor Wisdom's workers are getting Democrats' signatures on petitions to change Democratic registrations to Republican. In Georgia, State Chairman Elbert Tuttle has established the state's first full-time G.O.P. headquarters, and new party units are springing up all over the state. In Virginia, the G.O.P. thinks it has the chance of the century to elect a governor. "For the first time since the Civil...
...next lap on his Virginia farm. They take great pride in their craftsmanship ("Every day's program should be interesting in its own right") and talk solemnly about the beneficial influence of Life Can Be Beautiful on 3,300,000 faithful listeners. "Papa David's warmth and wisdom are a great comfort to listeners who thirst for inspirational things like this," Beckby feels. "We are reaching, always reaching for an expression of courageous faith-a word of comfort, a word of hope. We bring the message that, however dark the world, however unhappy the particular situation, this...
Preacher in the Cellar. The worst of all this, says Lynd, is that the superprofessionals themselves are often "half-educated or uneducated." Having taken John Dewey's anti-absolutism as the only true absolute, they feel little compulsion to dig into the wisdom of the past. Thus, "one hears the value of classical studies denounced by men whose understanding is obviously uncomplicated by any personal acquaintance with the classics. Emotional conditioning is held to be more important than intellectually acquired information-by persons whose private stocks of information come almost exclusively from the occupational texts which Educationists write...
...nations he had visited, Stevenson had conducted himself with a nonpartisan sense of responsibility, wisdom and tact. What had he been called on to explain most often? "McCarthyism," said Stevenson with no pause at all. He was cautiously optimistic about the state of the world. "We have been winning the cold war, step by step," he said. "In consequence, the danger of world war has diminished ... for the present." But the picture also had its dark side-which Democrat Stevenson by implication laid at the door of the Eisenhower Administration. Said he: "Just now, unhappily, [U.S.] prestige and moral influence...