Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principles of non-violence." Kennedy cables support of Pusey, too, calling him "a great President," and "little brother." Pusey cables Nehru an impulsive offer of the deanship of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which Nehru declines, calling Pusey "a tower of strength and a pillar of wisdom...
Even with Congress in recess, the partisan snipers still plinked away. As the Republicans' leading sharpshooter, New York's Congressman William Miller, retreated to Florida to meditate the wisdom of surrendering either his chairmanship of the G.O.P. National Committee or his House seat, his fellow New Yorker, Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, helpfully counseled him to hang onto the latter. After the recent "Rocky-mandered" reapportionment of New York's congressional districts, gibed Celler, a Republican could not be unseated in Miller's district "by St. Gabriel himself." Responded Miller: ''I hope-for once...
...what we're doing that we don't have time to do what we're justifying." Nor does the public yet adequately grasp the principle of academic freedom: "The doctor cannot help the patient who insists on making his own diagnosis; the philosopher cannot communicate his wisdom to the kibitzer who keeps telling him what to think...
...noting that some of the current criticism was issuing from the far-right John Birch Society. Post Columnist Max Lerner took the line that since the U.N. had ignited the fire in Katanga, its defenders were stuck: "In this case, there is plenty of room for doubt about the wisdom of the U.N.'s action but no room for hesitancy about backing...
...break up a Negro demonstration: "When savages don't know how to behave themselves, it is necessary to resort to some effective method of maintaining order." He once described the South's race problem as "an ovenful of rattlesnakes just about to thaw. Either somebody with wisdom had better cut off the heat or there are deadly hatching days ahead...