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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...widespread, chastening publicity that results from open investigation. To critics who want more powers for the commissioner, the government replies that when the first grievance man is appointed-probably by year's end-his effectiveness will not depend so much on his legal prerogatives as on the wisdom and courage of the man who gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Zealand: Grievance Man v. Bureaucracy | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

...famous wisdom that is supposed to be ours in age doesn't help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother Goddam | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

...standards for those amiable but less capable members of society. It matters not whether a man is of good lineage or is self-made, whether he be as rich as Rockefeller or as Henry David Thoreau. But he must have some quality that distinguishes him from the mass, wisdom and standards that equip him for leadership. The people in your article do not meet these requirements. Mr. Guest inherited some money and plays a pretty fair game of polo. Mrs. Guest posed in the nude for Diego Rivera and flirted unsuccessfully with Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 3, 1962 | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...most hilarious and telling parodies of the conventions of romantic operetta that one is ever likely to see. It also serves to illustrate the sometimes very great distance between the romantic and the realistic forms in musical comedy. Pal Joey treats important problems with taste and even wisdom that one rarely finds in musical comedy. For this reason, the certainly very acceptable production at Framingham offers viewers a chance to investigate again the richness of this finest of the Rodgers and Hart scores...

Author: By Richmond Crinkley, | Title: Pal Joey | 7/26/1962 | See Source »

Murray, who will go on researching despite retirement, once proposed a vast "new testament" synthesizing Eastern and Western wisdom. Yale's famed Philosopher F.S.C. Northrop, 68, argued similar ideas in his monumental The Meeting of East and West (1946), the work of a man equally at home in law, science, sociology, diplomacy and anthropology. Yale has rarely seen the likes of Northrop, a brilliant Wisconsinite who studied at Harvard and Cambridge, became a protégé of Alfred North Whitehead. The first master of Yale's Silliman College, Northrop quit that in 1947 for fulltime scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lost Leaders | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

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