Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confident that Bobby Kennedy helped to impress America's good will, wisdom, and, above all, her sincerity upon the Japanese minds, young and old alike...
Moses, who lived about five centuries after the Middle Kingdom ended, was "brought up in Egyptian wisdom," argues Professor John A. Wilson of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. "So the philosophies contained in the Coffin Texts quite clearly could have been known to him and to the children of Israel...
...pace in promotion." At the Diet, Lower House Speaker Ichiro Kiyose, 77, and Upper House President Tsuruhei Matsuno, 78, watched Kennedy and sighed wistfully. "The days are here," said Matsuno. "for the younger generation to take over." Bobby gracefully deferred to age: "We gain by referring to the wisdom of experience...
...Microcosm. Hughes does not write with a researcher's smug wisdom-after-the-event but with an artist's power of recording the past as if it were the living present. His method is that of creating a system of related microcosms (thus saving nine-tenths of the wordage of the usual novel of public events). In the German half of The Fox in the Attic, the microcosm is the family of Augustine's baronial kin, who live in a huge old castle near Munich...
President Robert F. Goheen recently appointed a special committee to investigate the best locations for shelters on the Princeton campus. The committee selected the sites, but expressed no opinion concerning the wisdom of shelters...