Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...identify them is to pour a little down them also. Congressional recognition of how true this is would be worth even more than larger European contributions to overseas assistance. It would be not only the fulfillment of an economist's dream, but the real begining of sense and wisdom in American foreign...
...grandfather was a slave (Barnett's father and grandfather were both Confederate soldiers), but James Meredith served in the U.S. Air Force and came out in 1960 a staff sergeant. A slight, shy man of 29, he became, in the words of Federal Appeals Judge John Minor Wisdom, before whom he appeared in his attempts to enter the university, a "man with a mission and a nervous stomach...
...words of financial wisdom from multimillionaire Arkansas Farmer Winthrop Rockefeller, 50, uttered to the London press on how to watch the dimes in hopes that the dollars will take care of themselves: "Never overtip...
...special antenna in his backyard in Los Angeles in order to receive Jackson, calls him "the all-night psychiatrist." Make Love Now. Jackson stays in business because his audience finds the program engrossing and totally unpredictable, but he also does his best to dispense free comfort and wisdom to both callers and listeners. His deep, mature, soothing and mellifluous upper-class English voice sounds like Harold Macmillan giving advice to Laertes. He is Fatherhood itself to women in trouble. He recently talked a 15-year-old pregnant child into waking up her parents and telling them the unfortunate news. "Whatever...
...Professor Arnold Soby, a burnt-out romantic case (his young wife had died years before) with little left but his literary allusions. Encrusted with irony, hobbled by a pedagogue's inability to face life except in terms of art, Soby nevertheless fancies himself a secret worshiper of the wisdom of the body-for him symbolized by the bacchic visions that lured Gustav Aschenbach, the aging hero of Thomas Mann's famous novella, Death in Venice, to a debasing but idyllic passion for a beautiful young...