Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wireless onto a symphony concert and conduct like mad with a poker or pencil for an hour or so. The cold, I guarantee, will have vanished by the last movement." A comparative youngster in a profession noted for longevity, Sir John, 61, who is inclined to share his wisdom with everybody, freely explained the secret of his nostrum: "Do you know why conductors live so long? Because we perspire so much...
...step: assumption of an imperial diadem or the trappings of dictatorship ... It behooves [President Kennedy] to remember, as we think he does, that neither the U.S. nor the rest of the world is through with Dwight Eisenhower." In Los Angeles, the Republican Times called him a "man of ripened wisdom. His adversities have nourished his good will and sharpened his perception. Surely the people are proud of this man and proud of themselves for electing him while he was available...
...vigor has not decreased," he said. "I am convinced that day by day my wisdom increases. But I am also satisfied that my stock of patience diminishes, and that is why I think the time has come." He was timing his retirement, he said, to enable his successor to be ready for the Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches in New Delhi next November. He planned to step down in May, and already felt like a schoolboy "getting in sight of the holidays," or a "matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring again...
After careful psychiatric examination of 90 inoperable cancer patients at the University of Lund's department of surgery, the research team decided to tell 38 of the patients the true nature of their illness. Most accepted the news calmly, or had only small doubts about the wisdom of telling. Only five deplored the doctors' decision to inform them...
Faculty opinion was mixed on the wisdom of yesterday's severance of diplomatic relations with Cuba. John N. Plank '45, instructor in Government, termed President Eisenhower's move "a pretty legitimate thing to do," while Luigi R. Einaudi and Nadav Safran, instructors in Government, criticized the Administration's decision...