Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tragedy is that there is an alternative--but it may be too unconventional for the Mayor, even though it has been tried elsewhere with great success, and even though its wisdom has been demonstrated in arenas other than the city...
...moved by President Johnson's decision. Never before, as far as I know, has a President of the U.S. had to exercise his duties and prerogatives under such difficult circumstances. He fought America's and the free world's battle, inside and outside the U.S., with wisdom, courage and dignity. The great tragedy of the free world of our era is that those who should lave supported him, and through him America and the free world, betrayed him, the free world and themselves. They did the job of their own enemies...
...that efficiency, wisdom, gentleness, loyalty and protean energy have been employed by Watson, 43, in his combination job as office manager, political emissary and personal factotum to the President. Officially titled Appointments Secretary, he has been something of an unsmiling, unverbal, unpublicized Jack Valenti...
...appraisal of Bobby's role as a J.F.K. foreign policy adviser, particularly during the Cuban missile crisis. "He remained calm and cool," said the former Defense Secretary, "firm but restrained, never nettled and never rattled, and he demonstrated a most extraordinary combination of energy and courage, compassion and wisdom...
...apologist for lives as well as works. Peggy Rizzo, who is quite talented, still managers to leave her "Three Studies from the Bridge" in a confusion, fine passages ("rain loosening from the leaves," "thoughts neved and birthed in the flesh of words") tumble together with passages buoyed by neither wisdom nor sound (I moved to dreams unpeopled, but birded"). There exists then no poem but only favored portions; there is no totality to like or dislike, certainly none to analyze. Something is perversely appealing about this nonchalance, for too often here writers or directors claim integrity for works which have...