Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World's most obedient bed" (a mattress firm), "newest and purest" (a car), "most useable, liveable, likeable" (another car), "most mysterious" (a cosmetic), "most heavenly drink on earth" (a blend of gin, herbs and fruit flavoring). Said New Yorker Advertising Director A. J. Russell Jr., drawing on the wisdom of 33 years' experience: "We never win completely...
Called Aeterna Dei Sapientia (The Eternal Wisdom of God), from its opening words, the new encyclical commemorates the 15th centenary of Pope St. Leo I, the strong-minded Bishop of Rome from 440 to 461 who dissuaded Attila the Hun from sacking the city in 452, and asserted papal supremacy and discipline over bishops of both Christian East and West. In his new appeal for Christian unity, Pope John avoids mention of Communism by name, but notes that "the Catholic Church finds herself in the same sorrowful position as in the 5th century.'' Because of the threat...
...text of Cardinal Cushing's prepared remarks had a wisdom, at once comendable and too-limited, which opened the way to events for our more subtle senusement. His remarks were commendable (if one who known infinitely less about Boston may be allowed to comment) in that they restored dramatically the spirits of a police force low in morale, bitter because of what it took to be still one more instance of political opportunism--at its expense, humiliated by sweeping public allegations against its professional honor: Integrity in the law. (Until proved, the cruelest allegation against a professor is sophistry; against...
...Wisdom (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). A Conversation with Frank Lloyd Wright. Repeat...
...these the precepts are, my friends, The aging Wilson recommends: Beware of dogmas backed by faith; Steer clear of conflicts to the death; Keep going; never stoop, sit tight; Read something luminous at night. Such are the pearls of wisdom and poetry of the mature Wilson. The man and his voice are obviously cultured. So, alas, are the pearls...