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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spiritual benefits of listening to "the bathroom noises of the Swami's morning toilet." Anandamayee Ma was nearly 63, but she looked like "a gypsy beauty in her forties." She played constantly with her beautiful toes, and disconcerted Koestler by giggling and writhing while she delivered her spiritual wisdom to a rapt audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ex-Commissar v. the Yogis | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...father performs admirably in a comic-relief role; his best scenes occur when he goes to the dance hall looking for Vidal and (inevitably) is mistaken for a prospective pupil. And the inspector and his sub-gendarmes express all of a cop's care-worn but crime-piercing wisdom...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Come Dance With Me | 11/15/1960 | See Source »

...Clifford, onetime counsel for Harry Truman, representing Kennedy, and Brigadier General Robert E. Cushman Jr., speaking for Nixon. Advised by a 14-man committee headed by former Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, the Brookings team has interviewed some 60 top-level veterans of changeovers. Last week their accumulated wisdom went out to both candidates in the first three of ten memos on the subject. According to Brookings, the President-elect should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Morning After | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...showed greater wisdom in next essaying Bach's Coffee Cantata and Locke's masque Cupid and Death. Both are works of high quality readily stageable and technically rather easy--well within the grasp of student performers. Yet the participants adopted so cavalier and irresponsible an attitude toward preparation that the result was an insult to the audience and, uniquely in Harvard's post-War theatrical history, managed to achieve total disaster. When, near the masque's end, the principals were poised in the balcony arches above the Fogg Court, one felt a nearly unconquerable desire to yell, "Jump...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Harvard Theatre Has Busiest Year Yet | 11/12/1960 | See Source »

Discussing the United Nations, Morgenthau warned against giving too much answer to an organization which "could come an instrument of Russia." Instead he suggested, "what is needed is a effective foreign policy which rests in the energy and wisdom of one man as resident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morgenthau Criticizes 'Obsolete' U.S. Policies | 11/12/1960 | See Source »

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