Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political haymaking of the Democrats during the U-2 affair fares ill when compared with the firm support Republicans are giving the present Administration during the Cuban fiasco. We venture to say that there was a good deal more presidential wisdom involved in the planning of the U-2 flights than in the Cuban invasion...
...keep out of foreign entanglements. Wrote Secretary of State William H. Seward in 1863, upon declining an invitation to join Britain, France and Austria in aiding the Poles, who had revolted against Russian tyranny: "The American people must be content to recommend the cause of human progress by the wisdom with which they should exercise the powers of self-government, forbearing at all times, and in every way, from foreign alliances, intervention and interference...
Swallow the Pits. On some occasions. All Souls elects distinguished Fellows from outside, such as T. E. Lawrence, who wrote most of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom under All Souls' auspices. But most Fellows are "straight gate" entrants, culled from Oxford's most brilliant new graduates. Each year only one or two pass muster, and in some years, none do. Each candidate submits two papers on his specialty, two more on such matters as politics and literature, a translation paper, and another on a one-word topic such as faith or loyalty...
...posture. "I can't explain it very well," Chapin once said, "but it is the symbolic human gesture that interests me -not the gesture of hands and feet but the carriage of the human body and the human head." Here, the carriage is erect, proud, quietly intense, with wisdom coiled inside like a spring...
When the pratfall and pie-in-the-puss comedy tires him, Comic Wisdom resorts to a genus of comedy that in seven films (all hits) and numberless TV shows he has failed to master: pantomime. While allowing himself to be duped by a charlatan of a music-hall star (played to seedy perfection by Jerry Desmonde), he lisps, giggles, gawks, grimaces, mugs and burbles. "Aggressive," is his psychiatrist's diagnosis at film's end. "I think you'd better grow up a little...