Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic reorganization of the nation's policy machinery is really necessary. "More often than not," he emphasized, "poor decisions are traceable not to machinery but to people-to their inexperience, their failure to comprehend the full significance of information crossing their desks, to their indecisiveness or lack of wisdom. Our best hope lies in making our traditional policy machinery work better-not in trading it in for some new model...
Down to the Ranks. Probably no man can use a myth as a mask in this probing century. Lawrence, having finished the private edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom in 1922, tried to lose his identity. Though he had been a colonel at war's end, he enlisted in the R.A.F. as a private soldier under the assumed name of John Hume Ross. In four months the secret was out, and Lawrence was booted out of the service. The next year he was allowed to enlist in the Tank Corps as T. E. Shaw, later transferring to the R.A.F...
...Wisdom (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). A conversation with Bertrand Russell. Repeat...
...these methods to bolster ourselves, sometimes," said Alfred, but the section loses its value if this pretending to knowledge is not undercut. "The section man can joke his students out of their pretensions," he suggested. Most important, he himself must never pretend to wisdom he does not have...
...Words of wisdom from my betters...