Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great many Americans quite understandably feel this way, and there may be political wisdom in paying heed to such feeling?especially at a time when George Wallace can he found soaring on gusts of middle-class discontent. Nixon adopted the old-style Southern strategy in the convention, extending it to put together a coalition of Southern, Border and Midwestern states; indications are that he may use a similar strategy to try to win the general election. This makes sense particularly if one bets that conservative sentiment will run wide and deep between now and Election Day, and by no means...
Pyramid of Wisdom. The likelihood that Humanae Vitae would prove to be a dead letter within months after its publication raised a far more fundamental ecclesiastical question, the role of papal authority in the church. Many theologians contend that there has been an unhealthy overemphasis on the teaching voice of Rome since the definition of papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council in 1870. In effect, the church has been a pyramid, with all wisdom flowing downward from the top. Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council suggested the possibility of a more democratic, decentralized concept of Catholicism. Paul...
...King George III, in all his majestic wisdom, had a sympathetic ear for the complaints of Colonists in benighted America. After a few piddling misunderstandings, he benevolently suggested in 1776 that they draw up a declaration of independence and make a go of it without the Mother Country, thus anticipating the end of colonialism even before establishment of the Empire. - To foster naval technology, meteorological research and Anglo-Hispanic relations, Spain's King Philip II sent his Armada on a good-will visit to Britain. On its completion, all participating mariners agreed that the cruise had given them...
...life, Charles de Gaulle has pondered the mystique of power. Last week, true to his own egocentric reasoning, he applied his maxims in a government shift that dumfounded his countrymen, angered the Gaullist party and raised doubts in France about the wisdom of his future policy. In what was perhaps the most ungracious ouster of a head of government since Germany's Wilhelm II fired Bismarck in 1890, De Gaulle dropped his old friend and loyal helper, Georges Pompidou, as Premier. As his replacement, De Gaulle tapped his longtime Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, a suave aristocrat...
...Ageless Wisdom. In the film 2001, Clarke's contribution as co-author and technical adviser to Producer-Director Stanley Kubrick is evident in such items as a weird but technologically probable talking computer that is more human than the astronauts. The film's ending, however, is almost pure Kubrick. A surviving spaceman is plunked into a Louis XVI bedroom after a psychedelic zoom through time and space that is mystifying to most moviegoers. But Clarke's novel version of 2001 explains all. As the survivor approached a huge monolith on lapetus, one of Saturn...