Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important echoes came from Britain, where the failure of the détente with Russia cast new doubts on the wisdom of Britain's long refusal to associate itself with the Common Market Six except on British terms. Speaking to the Assembly of the Western European Union last week, British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs John Profumo unexpectedly announced that Britain had decided "to consider anew" the idea of membership in the European Coal and Steel Community as well as EURATOM, the atomic pool of the Common Market...
Citation: "We hail him for the wisdom and the balance of common sense with which he has conducted the unimaginably complex affairs and borne the awesome burdens and responsibilities of the highest office of our land...
TIME calls me "Teacher Levin ... a sometime novelist." I prefer to be called Novelist Levin ... a sometime teacher. Five novels; one year of teaching. Nor were adult citizens equally divided. Eight parents objected; some 2,000 went on record endorsing me as a teacher and my wisdom to choose suitable literature for their youngsters...
Among them all, as the camera watches, moves man: an animal among animals, swallowed in nature's hungry womb, nourished with nature's wisdom and delight. Like dye stains through a tissue, the patterns of nature seep through African society. The force of the volcano imbues the man who smokes a pipe. The passion of the wooing crane inflames the maid who imitates its mating dance. The example of the hornbill, a bird that jealously mud-walls its mate in a tree for as long as three months at a stretch, is incorporated in the marriage laws...
...HAVING learned the wisdom of caring for its workers' physical welfare, U.S. industry is now debating a new question: Should it also concern itself with their mental health? Once, a worker's emotional state was considered strictly his own business, like the sort of food he ate. But in recent years, many a corporation has recognized a close relationship between the worker's mental state and his performance on the job. Many businessmen are coming to believe that it is only "practical humanitarianism" to try to increase efficiency by improving employees' mental health...