Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Observer, Sir William Hayter, who was Britain's Ambassador to Moscow at the time, wrote that Suez "was morally repulsive to many people (myself included)." After World War II, Sir William continues, Britain, though declining as a military power, was gaining a new reputation for "moderation, wisdom, respect for international law . . . Suez blew it all away," and Britain was made to appear "the same old grasping imperialist as ever, but toothless and rather incompetent." If Eden had not resorted to force, "some kind of international element in the control of the canal would have been preserved; the weakness...
...Sweden's Ernst Ingmar Bergman to produce an enormous canon of cinema, comprising 22 feature films and at least four other scripts, that merges into a single vast and violent masterpiece, a work of volcanic profundity and sometimes tumid pretentiousness, of snorting pornography, sly comedy and ripe ironic wisdom-a sort of serial Faust...
...pictures almost always symbolize the uncontrollable, or what he calls the "rough," but his vocabulary of yells, groans and occasional sighs of delight is drawn strictly from the natural world. "As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensualness," he once wrote, "I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness...
...life in the great philosophical confrontations of this century and their bloody outcome. Therefore, unlike the autobiographies of happier men, his depends on an understanding of the forces of which he made himself a servant. This understanding is often missing, or at best offers the cold comfort of wisdom after the event. As his first political experience-when he was a boy of five in his home town in the German Saarland-Regler recalls watching a policeman drag the local tailor by the ear up the town hall steps to face judgment for some obscure misdeed. From that moment...
...Camus himself phrased it: "One cannot be free at the expense of others." To extract from such sick, vast-scaled cruelty and violence such mere copybook wisdom seems at the same time elaborate and insufficient. In any case, what turns Caligula into a pathologically fascinating figure keeps him from being in any fundamental sense an interesting one. In much the same way, Caligula has its brilliant bursts of theater, its explosive moments of action, its lightning flashes of revelation, but no sustained drama and almost no inner development...