Word: wisdoms
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...Vatican may be preparing to lift its condemnation of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century Italian physicist whom the Inquisition put under eight years' house arrest for contending that the earth rotates around the sun. During his "examination" in 1633, the aged scientist was scoffed at for challenging the wisdom of Ptolemy, the Egyptian who 1,500 years earlier had asserted that the earth was the center of the universe. And why would Joshua have commanded the sun to stand still (Joshua 10: 12-13) if it did not move? Galileo was forced to recant. Addressing a meeting of Nobel...
Though his stature as a jurist hardly matches that of such colleagues on the Circuit Court as Albert Parr Tuttle and John Minor Wisdom, Thornberry took generally progressive stands on civil rights and free-speech cases. In 1966, he wrote the decision that struck down Texas' poll tax. Last year he sided with an 8-to-4 majority that ordered Southern schools to speed school desegregation. This year he overturned a local Louisiana ordinance restricting picketing with the words: "In an open society there must be the ability to advocate views in the hope of changing existing preconceptions...
...party of order and political wisdom," P.C. Boss Waldeck Rochet called it last week. No paradigm of classic Marxist militancy, the party jumped embarrassingly late onto the student-worker bandwagon and has generally. played a restraining role in the current crisis. De Gaulle made the Communists respectable by wooing Moscow and the East; they like his foreign policy, but dislike his authoritarianism at home and remain the focus of anti-Gaullism among many workers, the poor and some intellectuals. Prospects: some increase in Assembly seats...
...anthems and eulogies, the bitterness and the indignation, the fears and the rumors, the mind-numbing saturation of television and radio coverage engrossed the consciousness and conscience of a nation. The pronouncements of official bereavement, the calls for constructive action, for conciliation, for wisdom, all were unexceptionable. The United Nations lowered its flag to half-staff?an unprecedented tribute to one of Kennedy's modest official rank. Pope Paul announced at a formal audience the shooting of the junior Senator from New York. Condolences came from Charles de Gaulle, Aleksei Kosygin, Queen Elizabeth, Marshal Tito and scores of other world...
...tell him. Aeschylus, who introduced the tragic hero to literature, was his "favorite poet." On the death of Martin Luther King Jr., he used the lines: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." Asked once why he strove so hard, Kennedy again quoted from Aeschylus: "When the height is won, then there is ease...