Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Student power can be beneficial; student tyranny never is. Student involvement in politics should be encouraged, but student abuse of the democratic process must always be resisted. Students might well bear in mind the fine distinctions between reasoned dissent and raw intolerance, between knowledge and wisdom, between compromise and copping out. Already 1968 has produced one supreme lesson: students have much more to gain by working actively for change within the existing system than by dropping...
...fell into conversation with aides of Robert Kennedy. How might the former Defense Secretary help the campaign? Since he was barred from politics by the bank's charter, McNamara could not endorse Kennedy. But who could complain if he recounted Bobby's "energy and courage, compassion and wisdom" during the crises of his brother's Administration...
...wonderful picture, Mr. Nixon," the jumping teeny-bopper gushed. "It doesn't look like you at all." Asked to describe the "new" Nixon, he fingered his receding hairline and allowed: "Well, the new Nixon is older, to begin with. Perhaps he has acquired, I should hope, some more wisdom...
...many such communities, the good citizens of Tarbox accept health, wealth and wisdom as natural perquisites of their membership in the American middle class. Tarbox is a fun place too. Almost any Sunday, one can find a bunch of the fellows tossing around a basketball in somebody's driveway, while the women chat and watch and the children scramble and squabble. There's likely to be a spirited game of tennis at John and Bernadette Ong's place, followed by a few tall, cold vodka-and-tonics perhaps at Matt and Terry Gallagher's. The women...
...Columbus example has been tried in dozens of other communities--including New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant, in a project sponsored by Senator Robert Kennedy. But even if the Mayor were to follow the approach, in fact, he would be taking only a very limited step towards the wisdom of the unconventional approach, in fact, on its own it can end up as little more than "shrewd administractive technique" for routine antipoverty efforts...