Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is still room for the woman's angle with such as Gossipist Hedda Hopper on Hollywood, and Etiquette Expert Amy Vanderbilt ("Gracious Living Can Be Fun"). And it seems there will always be John Mason Brown, the dean of them all, who has been dispensing wit and wisdom for 36 years, is currently attacking what he calls the "spiritual fallout" in writing. "The purpose of writing," he orates, "is to hold a mirror to nature, and too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases," while the popular purveyors of the dirty word "appear to have...
Being one of the many Mormon missionaries, I am somewhat acquainted with the doctrine of our church. I would like to know where you got the statement "new converts, for example, no longer have to give up smoking." This is absurd. The Word of Wisdom, as the Mormons understand it, prohibits any use of tobacco, and is a commandment from God given through Joseph Smith at Kirtland, Ohio...
...third time in 15 months, the world was horrified witness to the spectacle of foreign soldiers, aided by the U.S.. seizing the towns and firing on native soldiers of the Congo. To many, the U.N.'s very presence in the African land was of doubtful wisdom. But in any case, the blazing guns and swooping planes of the U.N. hardly fitted the pacifying intent of its original Congo mandate...
Herbert first came into the Yard through the famous gate inscribed "Enter To Grow In Wisdom" and, ambitious Freshman that he was, determined to grow Harvard wise. He quickly learned the primary lesson that there are smooth and rough, weil-considered and ill-considered ways of saying things. It was rough and offensive not to qualify adjectives. To say, "This book is good," is too direct, too hard on the sensibilities. How much better to say, "This book is quite good," "rather good," or "sort of good." Herbert also discovered the devastating effect of the words "indeed," "thus...
...come to realize how much precision was demanded of the man who would express himself as befits a scholar, and how onerous were the burdens of composition. First, there was the matter of terminology: his field (economics) had no shortage of scientific words, which, since they represented the collected wisdom of the discipline, must be not only used but totally assimilated as well. Soon he was thinking in terms of maximized efficiency, input-output ratios, and consumer indifference curves. Second, there was the need to guard against vague language. On those occasions when he permitted himself a metaphor Herbert always...