Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role in the Arab revolt was small and whose subsequent career as a technician in the R.A.F. was merely a theatrical gesture of humility. To Winston Churchill he was "one of the greatest beings alive in our time," a man of vast abilities who could write (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) as well as he could fight...
Michigan's Governor-elect knows that the ability to make a quick decision is the mark of a good executive. But Lenore Romney, his handsome wife (who opted for marriage instead of a movie contract in 1931) knows the wifely wisdom of the let-George-do-it axiom. Out shopping for an inaugural ball gown, she nodded agreeably when his eye fastened on a "blush orchid" satin number with beaded bodice and boat neckline. Said she: "George chose it, I tried it on. and away we went...
Fear of Being Taken In. To Keniston. who feels that "true politics" should indeed concern collegians, a key deterrent is campus politics. By dealing only with trivia, he says, student government subtly argues that only "omnicompetent officials" have the wisdom to make real policy decisions. Even more subtle is an echo from the McCarthy era-not fear of speaking out. but fear of being taken in. Given the abiding American fear of being a sucker, says Keniston. McCarthy's allusions to "unwitting dupes" still make collegians wary of offbeat ideas...
...have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God," he said. "Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over life and death of the whole world of all living things. Having taken God-like power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have. So that today, St. John the Apostle may well be paraphrased, In the end is the word and the word is man, and the word is with...
Looking back on his own pre-prison life not so much in anger as in new-found wisdom, Crump tells the story of Guy Morgan. Like Crump, Morgan hates his father, a hellfire-and-brimstone revival preacher with a weakness for girls, who finally abandons the family for the favors of a particular girl named Zola. Morgan, like Crump, is brutally and unjustifiably beaten by a Negro-hating Chicago cop. But with plenty of precedent and plenty of excuse for blaming all Morgan's troubles on society, Crump instead makes his story illustrate a more mature individual judgment...