Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more is rottenness confined to the state of Denmark. It has became global, and may well become universal. Knowledge is infinite; wisdom is finite. And for the first time in history, man's knowledge has now surpassed his wisdom to use it. The outlook is bleak; and never before has man so needed Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida...
...succumbed to warring, lechery, idiocy, and hybristic vainglory. Donald Harron is unforgettable in the part. But Landau may be unwise to make him pick his nose, hawk into a spittoon, and mix coffee cups with the slop; it is not easy for an audience to acknowledge the wisdom in the speech of a man with such repulsive personal habits...
...tailored personalities are generally easy to replace, but when Dave Garroway resigned from Today last May, NBC faced one of those crises that keep TV executives afloat in martinis. Where could the network find another fellow with all the father owl appearance of Garroway and his special air of wisdom? The network did not try, instead delivered an intelligent surprise last week by replacing Garroway not with a "personality" but with a topnotch newsman. NBC's choice is John Chancellor, who has spent his career in the NBC news department, has recently been the network's bureau chief...
...intellectual does not need to have, and is frequently devoid of, that quality which is indispensable in the statesman-practical wisdom. In the world of the intellectual, ideas meet with ideas, and anything goes that is presented cleverly and with assurance. In the political world, ideas meet with facts which make mincemeat of the wrong ideas and throw the pieces in the ashcan of history...
Nobody Knows My Name goes on from where Harlem-born Author Baldwin left off in Notes of a Native Son (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955). In the intervening years, his indignation as a Negro and as an American has grown, but so has his intellectual grasp. There is wisdom of a kind in Baldwin's warning that "the South will not change-cannot change-until the North changes . . . The country will not change until it re-examines itself and discovers what it really means by freedom . . . Walk through the streets of Harlem and see what we, this nation, have become...