Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lucien Price has sounded the clarion call. Let us heed it, for it is more evidence of that rare wisdom that is both Price and priceless. Caldwell Titcomb...
...school which wants to remain flexible enough to identify, attract, and reward many forms of promise. Applicants already do their best to fit into what they consider the required mold, curtailing spontaneous intellectual griwth and activity. But if the Committee is now showing a Yankee sort of wisdom in keeping most of its opinions to itself, in the past it was more outspoken...
...preached the impracticality of selfishness and hatred, saying that "hatreds are not quenched by hatred. Hatreds are quenched by love." Side by side with Buddhism in the 6th century B.C. came the similar, if sterner, ethics of Jainism, which held that because "all beings hate pains," the "quintessence of wisdom is not to kill anything...
...were Communists, wrote Justice Stewart, and reasonable grounds for trying to find out whether they were members of the Communist propaganda apparatus. The court carefully avoided any blanket endorsement of committee investigations (noted Stewart in a rare aside: "These opinions do not imply any personal views as to the wisdom or unwisdom of the creation or continuance of the committee"), but it rejected the argument that Wilkinson and Braden were being persecuted merely for attacking the committee. Nor did their attacks make them immune from questioning as Communist suspects. "We can find nothing to indicate that it was the intent...
...Gaulle asked Bourguiba 1) to help convince the F.L.N. leaders that he was in earnest, 2) to urge on them the wisdom of progressing by stages so that chaos, bloodshed or disorder could be avoided. French public opinion would instantly harden against any policy that seemed to threaten the large and frightened European minority in Algeria, he warne,d. Without making any specific promise, De Gaulle hinted he would soon release from prison a top F.L.N. leader, Mohammed ben Bella. Bourguiba did not press him. "One does not haggle with De Gaulle," he said. "He is too big for that...