Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poet of this-worldliness; he celebrates love, food, drink, music, friendship, conversation, and the changing, changeless beauties of Nature. Though life is time's fool, Shakespeare posits the ideal of the mature man ("Ripeness is all") who distills his experiences into common sense and uncommon wisdom...
Second Thought. All week long the State Department had pondered the wisdom of Ike's going to Japan. Coincidentally, the President's three-day visit will begin on the day the new U.S.-Japanese mutual-defense treaty becomes effective. In recent months, Communist-directed leftists have launched a frenzied drive to topple Premier Nobusuke Kishi's government and torpedo the treaty. To retreat before the agitation of a Communist-led minority would be certain to weaken pro-U.S. forces in Asia, perhaps bring the downfall of the Kishi government and the treaty...
...again airing their political differences. Fortnight ago, Editor Patterson again announced her support of Adlai, whom she has admired for more than 30 years and whom she accompanied on his 1957 tour of Africa. Stevenson, she wrote, is "the best possible candidate" by virtue of "his experience, his wisdom and his ability." Last week Guggenheim replied in a signed announcement opposite Newsday's editorial page. Republican Richard Nixon, he wrote, "should be nominated by the Republican Party and elected by all of the people...
...discreet girl with wisdom apparently beyond her 23 years, Juliet keeps her private life to herself, yet openly and offhandedly refers to her evening drives out to Sinatra's Coldwater Canyon home. "We date. But I would not put it as a big romance. We get on very well together. Gossip doesn't worry me. I'm an open person. I've mixed around in this business long enough not to be embarrassed by anything pertaining...
...problems familiar to those who keep one, but lifted to the heroic plane (by the Hegelian principle that quantity turns into quality: if you get enough of something, it becomes not just more of the same thing, but something else in itself). A selection of Mrs. Adamson's wisdom includes some notable deductions about cats of all sizes...