Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Closer to Wisdom. As an editor younger than most of his staff-among them Gene Pulliam's son Eugene S., who is 46 and managing editor-Evans plans not to interfere with the news operations. The only change he has ordered so far is to dress up the editorial page with pictures, including a half-column cut of himself. Still a zealous disciple of conservatism, he spends hours poring through its literature in his third-floor walkup apartment just around the corner from the News. He attends Roberts Park Methodist Church, devotes his evenings to political ward meetings, public...
...that he is on the right track, journalistically as well as otherwise. "I think my philosophy is pretty close to the farmer in Seymour, Ind.," he says. "He believes in God. He believes in the U.S. He believes in himself. This intuitive position is much closer to wisdom than the tortured theorems of some of our Harvard dons...
Goldwater, you see, is a rather tall order for almost any voter to accept. To rebut rather sketchily, there is another side to all these Constitutional questions: Senator Goldwater apparently places little stock in the "necessary and proper" and "general welfare" clauses. The wisdom of the ages did not stop accumulating in 1789, and if a nation is to live fruitfully in a changing world, its Constitution must be a reasonably flexible document, laying down a framework for dealing with problems beyond the foresight of the drafters. Why does the Constitution not mention agriculture or education? Because the twentieth century...
...wisdom of 1789 in fact often seems irrelevant wisdom now: Goldwater follows the old line in saying, "Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty. Government represents power in the hands of some men to control and regulate the lives of other men." This is true, but the past century and a half have brought home another, equally important truth, that undesirable power can rest in private hands, like those of a corporation or those of a union...
...eventually to return to West Africa, hopefully to Nigeria, and to teach in one of the universities there. Although he does not intend to enter politics, he does hope to help work for a united Africa; an Africa that can develop its resources and still preserve "the tradition and wisdom passed on to us by our ancestors...