Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What I should like to say if the CRIMSON would care to print it is this-although I represent the generation gap we are all of us at heart rebellions, frustrated and sick about the world in general. No one of us has a monopoly of reason. wisdom or knowledge enough to understand the complications of the various situations with which we are all faced...
...June graduate and June bride, I find myself eager to subscribe to the militancy of the Women's Liberation [Nov. 21] as a reaction to the ego deflation of the past five months. Breezing off campus armed with the wisdom of the world, I am forced not to change society, but to struggle with it in order to maintain the identity I worked 22 years to establish. With all life's past glories and associations reflected in my maiden name, I find it difficult to glow with pride when addressed by an unfamiliar term that was tacked...
...mother's gentle complaint: "I am a Southerner, a Catholic and a woman, all of whom are now treated like second-class citizens!" She never became more vocal than that-however, influencing all who knew her far more with her peerless manners, her personal faith and her subtle wisdom in her relationships with others. Perhaps this is Aunt Tabby-ism, but if self-esteem is the expressed goal of the feminists, they could find it in my mother's approach, as European women have known for generations...
...much less tried to answer it; since De Tocqueville a succession of travelers from older and supposedly wiser civilizations have concluded that the U.S. lacks a tragic sense of life. The observation is largely true; the explanation is the varied strands of thought that, welded together, constitute the conventional wisdom of the American ethos...
...years ago he touched off a furor when at Gov, Connally's birthday party in the University of Texas gym he publicly called peace demonstrators a "bunch of dirty nothings" that had no placate on the campus. From time to time, he has handed down other, similar bits of wisdom...