Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deceptive Invective." Ohio's 1960 election returns, with the G.O.P. recapturing the legislature and Nixon walloping Kennedy, made Di Salle doubt the wisdom of trying for a second term in 1962. His losing budget battles with the legislature confirmed Di Salle's doubts, and last October he announced that he would not run. He could fight for his programs, he said, without getting into "the slugging match of a political campaign." The farewell was premature. Convinced that they could do better with Di Salle than without him, state Democrats, with an assist from President Kennedy, pressured him into...
...said Burke, derives from the "fundamental unreality" of seeking peace without being willing to use power: "It frustrates our every use of power. In Cuba, in Suez, in Korea, currently in Laos, we half use it in a compromise between dream and reality . . . The first signs of a refurbished wisdom will be found in a frank, conscious and determined use of our power-in all its forms -to determine the course of international events in the modern world." The U.S., Burke continued, is wallowing about in high policy seas. "In a schizoid manner we have balanced a Department of Defense...
...addition, future teachers would be trained to use specific subject material. Such training should include emphasis on how a particular idea is likely to be received by students. According to Mayer, prospective social studies teachers are told about something called "the wisdom of education" rather than how to teach their subject. "Imagine how many deaths would occur" Mayer asked, "if doctors were instructed only in the wisdom of medicine...
...Robert Hutchins (who still holds the title of editor of the Great Books). In 1943 Adler scraped up a $60,000 grant to begin work on his Syntopticon index for the Great Books. The Syntopticon unabashedly categorizes the "102 Great Ideas of Western Civilization" (from Angel and Animal to Wisdom and the World ) and refers the reader to everything of note that the great authors have said about them...
...they want to know, "what's your name?" Hutch tells them, tells them the spot he's in-"So please come! Ya gotta come!" But Mantle and Maris only shake their heads sadly; and then Mantle, with a wisdom that few fans have suspected him of concealing, gives Hutch a few pointers on the great game of life. "Hutch," he drawls stolidly, "yew lied. Now son, yew cain't make a foul ball faar, jes' by movin' the baselines...