Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years he has lived, the countries he has visited, the great men he has known--they shine in the eyes of this raw-fisted footsoldier from days past. To be in his presence is to be in the presence of unmistakable wisdom. To be eyed through his legendary horn rims is to be subjected to a glance from which no secret, dark or innocent, can be safe. He is a statesman, and a scholar...
Initially hailed, Tiger now seems undecipherable and inconsequential. Giraudoux lacked the wit to give his play buoyancy and the wisdom to give it gravity. He simply swaps frivolous badinage on war, a tragic theme that demands poetry and power...
...Chinese believe, will illustrate this principle at work, inspiring others to launch their own struggles. When Dean Rusk reads Chinese documents expressing these views he is confirmed in his resolve never to give up the fight in Vietnam. Ironically, he seems to believe in the infallibility of Communist wisdom on this point. Nevertheless, both the Chinese and the American analyses are wrong...
SOMEWHERE during the course of the past generation the belief that "80 per cent of all auto accidents are the fault of the driver" became established in the conventional wisdom of the traffic safety field. Repeatedly the institutions that have encouraged this belief have been challenged to produce acceptable evidence that it is so. Just as repeatedly the challenge has been ignored. Although the use of alcohol by drivers is known to be the chief factor in the initiation of fatal crashes, this constant emphasis on the culpability of drivers probably has the effect of lessening anxiety about the driving...
...students to see such help and advice thought of by Harvard as interference. Perry once said students had yet to learn that people can get help for themselves without getting it by themselves. It is ironic that Harvard evidently expects its students to learn this important piece of wisdom by themselves...