Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur Koestler undoubtedly has a marvelous mind, but his most recent pronouncements regarding the futility of looking to Asia for enlightenment and spiritual guidance seem exceedingly irresponsible, unfair and misleading. By dwelling on the extremes of Oriental religions and their mystifying mysticism, he grossly distorts the wisdom of the East. He rejects Zen Buddhism and at the same time discounts the essence of Zen, which is not a spiritual doctrine, not a religion, not even a philosophy. One who understands Zen has no gods to fail him. For Zen is not a faith, but faith; not hopes, but hope...
...Wisdom for Mankind. The curtain went down, soon went up again, and there on the stage was Eugene Ionesco himself, a Rumanian-born French citizen who answers the frequent charge that the bizarre (e.g., three-nosed) characters in his plays "come from nowhere" by saying that "they come from Everywhere." Through an interpreter he solemnly told his audience that the surrealists "nourished me," but that the three biggest influences on his work were actually Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx. Answering written questions from the house, he picked up a cold potato that went "Do you think that the modern dramatic...
...Lesson a teacher who has tried to instruct 39 inept students, murdering each one when the effort failed, murders No. 40 onstage. In The Chairs an aged couple takes leave of the world through a window, leaving behind an Orator appointed to deliver their final message of wisdom for mankind; but the Orator is an inarticulate idiot...
...civility, who goes busily and happily about his work a domesticated and law-abiding man engaged in the construction of a philosophy to put an end to all philosophy This is perennially the work of the barbarian to undermine rational standards of judgment, to corrupt the inherited intuitive wisdom by which the people have always lived, and to do this not by spreading new beliefs but by creating a climate of doubt and bewilderment in which clarity about the larger aims of life is dimmed and the self-confidence of the people is destroyed...
John Minor Wisdom, 55, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, the Canal Zone). New Orleans-born John Wisdom, a topflight corporation lawyer and an Eisenhower Republican, was appointed to the federal bench in 1957. Since then, says a New Orleans attorney, "he has disappointed a lot of his enemies and surprised many of his friends." The reactions stem from the quality of his tough decisions: alone or in tandem with fellow Fifth Circuit judges, Wisdom has outlawed a Louisiana law that forbade Negroes to participate in sports events with whites, and ruled...