Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Julian Lowell Coolidge was a mathematics professor here) and looks it. Still handsomely distinguished at 54, he looks and talks like the epitome of a well-bred gentleman. It is easy, as he leans back in his chair reflecting on a question, to see him as the image of Wisdom and Moderation--the kind of man you could entrust a Cezanne collection to with the assurance that it would be put to the best of all possible uses...
McCarthy, first to reply, appeared to be saying that the National Liberation Front, political arm of the Viet Cong guerrillas, would have to be included immediately in a postwar Saigon government. Kennedy said that the Communists would have to be given some role, but he crisply challenged the wisdom of "forcing a coalition government" on Saigon. McCarthy backed down, said that he would not force a coalition either...
...massive U.S. military commitment was a blunder that threatened catastrophe. He had helped plant the roots of Johnson's Viet Nam policy during the Kennedy Administration, and he acknowledged it: "But past error is no excuse for its own perpetuation. Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live...
...traditional beliefs and show how present desolation, ironically, was born in past faith. Expelled from the Garden of Eden, man was bereft; expelling God from the cosmos, modern man is equally bereft. The legendary Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give men life, light, art and wisdom...
...where his friends from New Frontier days consider him practically part of the clan. "He has a nice urbanity and a rather sardonic view of people and events," says Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Adds Economist John Kenneth Galbraith: "He has the savoir-faire, the savviness, the wisdom that Harold Macmillan had 25 years ago." Also like Macmillan, to whom he is related by marriage, Harlech has profited by a set of thoroughly gilt-edged circumstances. His father served for 28 years as a Tory M.P. and for two as Colonial Secretary, and his mother was a member of the legendary...