Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argues, have been the same. Hughes goes beyond Eisenhower's contempt for politicans in explaining the President's frustrations, and suggests that the failing lies deeply rooted in the country's most basic attitudes towards government and politics: "For not even the presidency can grandly excel the range of wisdom, the strength of will, the clarity of purpose of the people it must serve by leading. And this is true no matter whose presidency it be. For it remains, always and ultimately, theirs...
...their society. This perspective developed gradually during the 15 years NSA has been in existence, and has only become fully conscious in recent years. The hope of those who introduced "politics" into NSA was that by bringing students of widely-differing opinions together, the easy answers of the traditional wisdom would come under critical examination. NSA insisted that although it took positions, it was "non-partisan" in an important way. The point was not to discredit any particular political view-point. It was rather to encourage students to think for themselves in a systematic way about the goals and methods...
...Library the essential principles were still known and applied. The result has been consistently fresh and temperate air supplied to the main reading room without noise or annoyance and numerous individually adjustable combinations of temperatures and breezes in the stalls. Primitive as our for bearers were, there was some wisdom in their quaint ways...
...able to insure that a student's overall instruction is humanistically valuable. Those in position of responsibility usually appear to infer that because courses are given at Harvard, therefore they must be valuable. The logic of this inference is faulty: the results are regretable. "Enter to grow in wisdom" should be replaced, perhaps, by "Enter to increase in technical competence...
...guide its decisions. Each of Bahai's chief prophets, the 19th century Islamic heretics known as Bab and Baha'u'llah, wrote his own five-foot shelf of divine revelations. In addition, Bahai (Persian for "follower of Baha'u'llah") broad-mindedly welcomes the wisdom of all the great religious teachers, from Moses to Christ to Mohammed to Buddha. "We love all religions," says Canadian-born Ruhiyyih Rabbani, widow of Baha'u'llah's great-grandson...