Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boise, Idaho, he told a group of Republican candidates: "One of my biggest concerns is that government be run by wisdom instead of by callow youth." Foreign crises like Korea, he said, were met "headon with firmness, and they were solved." Guatemala was rescued from Communist domination. Wages, income and the gross national product went up; the rate of increase in the cost of living went down. "If this is not moving," said Ike dryly, "it is a reasonable facsimile thereof...
...watching their bumbling actions. The Washington record of these past 20 months presents a picture of political connivance instead of statesmanship, of selfish grabs for power instead of respect for our concepts of balance in government, of arrogant assertion of Washington infallibility instead of readiness to trust in the wisdom of the American people...
...wear the shape of man. That shape is the evolutionary product of a strange, long wandering through the attics of the forest roof, and so great are the chances of failure, that nothing precisely and identically human is likely ever to come that way again. There may be wisdom; there may be power; somewhere across space great instruments, handled by strange, manipulative organs, may stare vainly at our floating cloud wrack, their owners yearning as we yearn. Nevertheless, in the nature of life and in the principles of evolution we have had our answer. Of men elsewhere, and beyond, there...
Although increased membership may "not bring more wisdom or stronger courage" to the world organization, it "does mean that more people are being reached. . . and that the vital principle of universality is being advanced," he said...
...cries out for even zestier treatment. Arion has set out to banish the philological quibbling and fusty Victorian translations that have stupefied students for generations. Applying the verbal and visual techniques of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Henry James and the movies, it aims to reawaken pleasure in the wit and wisdom that once served as the main dish of education. Arion clearly reflects the exuberant yet scrupulous hand of Co-Editor William Arrowsmith, 38, translator in 1959 of the lusty Satyricon of Petronius. To many Arion readers, Arrowsmith's version of Aristophanes' rollicking Knights' Prologue made the first...