Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teach reading, not writing." In the opening lecture of Humanities 119 he said that by searching for the sources of power in a story "I might be able to help you write better novels someday." Thus he talks not of style to his students, but of "themes, visions, fables, wisdom...
...Washington a year ago went to convince men in government. The Peace Marchers felt they had a clearer vision and understanding of the world conflict than did the men in Congress and the State Department. And they hoped to convince these men with lucid arguments, overwhelming logic, and superior wisdom...
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 careers...
...house and business and retiring to Florida, or buying out his rival and increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama joins daughter on the couch in her own folksy way: "I like a harder mattress." The kindly psychoanalyst offers her some open-sesame seeds of wisdom-be permissive. At play's end, everyone is (Freud should pardon the expression) well adjusted...
...Irenaeus, Valentinus argued that the real God was hidden to men's eyes; earth, the realm of evil, had been created by a lesser, malevolent deity. Jesus had been sent by the hidden God to redeem the world from this demiurge, and had imparted a secret wisdom, or gnosis, to the select few who were destined to be saved...