Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard University: I do not believe anybody in this Administration makes the pretentious mistake of thinking he knows what is going to happen. One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know...
...shocked to the very core of my being by your review of Mr. Amos Queensly's novel The Section Man. I believe that Mr. Queensly has written a book that is deliberately meant to offend the sensibility of the reader. I would like to take issue with the wisdom of bringing this book to the attention of the Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduate. It is particularly shocking that your reviewer should quote with approval the sentiments of that...Norman Mailer. Any casual observer who walks through the Square has an opportunity to observe the loose morals and easy ways prevalent among...
Discipline might come from studying mathematics or science or history, but apparently having language study required makes it even better discipline--doesn't hurt those who are willing, and is good for recalcitrant souls. The doctrine of wisdom through suffering is nowhere more popular than among defenders of indefensible positions...
Faust contains not just great lyrical speech, but ditties and doggerel, not just shadowy metaphysics but bright worldly wisdom, not just a welter of incident but a web of dreams, not just a prologue about stagefolk but another between the Devil and God. There are archangels along with procuresses, chunky peasants with symbolical wraiths, tavern songs and unearthly choruses, the kind of poem that gave Schubert Gretchen's spinning song, the kind of dialectic that prefigures Shaw's "Scene in Hell." It is among all this that Goethe propels his chief characters, Faust and his tempter-companion Mephistopheles...
...that Lindstrom says about the futility of the newspapers' race with radio and television is quite true: the networks have seen the wisdom of imitating the airwaves. But radio and television, I think, are not the cause of the newspapers' troubles--the competition between the two media is largely illusory. Those who want to know what is going on in the world look to television only for events like national conventions, coronations and inaugurations; on other occasions, except for the specials, television makes no pretension of being an adequate news medium, and interested people must and do look elsewhere...