Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon was not alone in doubting the wisdom of the new appointment. For no matter how talented Maxwell Taylor is, he will be one more voice added to the clamoring chorus of advisers who fight for John Kennedy's ear as the President attempts to build and enforce the nation's foreign policy...
...never grants such audiences, not even with a Hearst) and had to settle for Premier Michel Debré. What about France's future? they asked. "One must never construct the distant future with only the date of the present time," answered Debré vaguely. Before cabling this wisdom to the U.S., Debré's visitors promised to send him a copy of their story...
...blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight...
...their horizons were broader, the new Texans had some of their fathers' narrow wisdom about them. They knew how to make credit work and work again. For them, the real joy of business was the excitement of the risk and the satisfaction of pulling off a deal. And with an almost Calvinistic compulsion, they all drove themselves to work, work, work-even after they had made more money than they could ever personally use. "We are obligated to do something useful," says Clint Murchison Jr., "and the most useful thing I can do is be in business. The most...
...green rain has fallen," and by midsummer, the high plateaus are blue with thistles "rippling like the sea." There is also the settled villagers' nostalgia for a happier nomadic past, and repeated echoes of Nasr-ed-Din, the great comic hero whose wit and clownish wisdom have enlivened Turkish bazaars for 700 years. For the most part the author's philosophy seems to reflect Memed's own mood, benign in the midst of violence: "What good men there are in the world...