Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each year, at the society's first dinner, the chairman rises and solemnly intones: "Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. You will seek not a near, but a distant, objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you have done. All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern...
Maybe we should re-evaluate "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public," presented by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift's proposal argued with ironical solemnity the economic wisdom of the sale of year-old infants by the poor to the rich for table consumption...
...neck almost stood up. The idea was that good." Allen's brainstorm: a 19-minute "Meeting of the Minds" inserted in his hour-long TV variety show, featuring Allen and actors playing Aristotle, Dostoevsky, Montaigne, Hegel, Freud and Clarence Darrow, the lot of them hashing over the wisdom of the ages. But NBC, unable to see in such a cerebral panel the laugh riot customarily expected of Comic Allen, summarily vetoed Thinker Allen and his sham philosophers. It was, allowed the network, perhaps a fine idea for some other spot, time and moderator. Whimpered Steve Allen: "I feel like...
...noblest and purest glories of her priesthood"-i.e., celibacy. He urged priests to pay close attention to head, heart and tongue: to study all their lives, to fill their hearts with love, and to know when to speak and when to keep silent, "a sign of wisdom and sacerdotal perfection...
More in anger than in wisdom, Chairman Rosser Reeves, 49, of Ted Bates & Co., took pen in hand and wrote one of the most remarkable ads in recent years. Splashed full page in seven major newspapers last week at a cost of $23,574, it was Reeves's rebuttal to Federal Trade Commission charges that his agency had deceived TV viewers by shaving phony sandpaper in commercials for Colgate-Palmolive's Rapid Shave and by doctoring Standard Brands' Blue Bonnet Margarine with liquid drops that were billed as "flavor gems" (TIME, Jan. 25). Reeves...