Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pope said that he hoped his encyclical "will be heard and understood by all"-and it seemed that it was. There was a chorus of praise from leaders of other churches, and U.N. Secretary General U. Thant chimed in with "respectful homage" to the Pope for "his great wisdom, vision and courage." As a description of personal rights and the role of government, Pacem in Terns so closely conformed to Western practice and ideals that the U.S. State Department abandoned its custom of ignoring papal encyclicals and said: "No country could be more responsive than the U.S. to its profound...
McIntyre points up a very common problem. Though supposedly independent of the sovereign people longer than anyone, and free to exercise his own judgement, each Senator decides for himself how much discretion is the better part of wisdom. The amount of discretion among the freshmen is actually quite surprising...
Although the faculty recognized the President's prerogtive to dissociate the university from Mrs. Aberle's speech, it stressed the doubtful wisdom of "the President's choice of action--the administering of a reprimand and the discriminatory salary increase...
Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller, A Private Correspondence. In an exchange of letters that crackled back and forth for nearly 25 years, the two novelists speak with wit, wisdom and dedication about the practice of their trade...
Even more than Russians, Arabs express their folk wisdom in proverbs, ranging from the cautionary (see cover) to the racially skeptical ("Better the tyranny of the Turks than the justice of the Arabs"). There are proverbs aplenty to fit the dream of unity. To the ambitious Nasser, other Arab leaders might point out the one that says. "The camel driver has his plans, and the camel has his." But proverbs are eclipsed by power, and last week nothing was more certain than that whatever unity scheme emerges in the Middle East, must, first of all, be satisfactory to Gamal Abdel...