Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discover the public function of the university one must begin with its internal imperative--the gathering of a community of scholars in devotion to disinterested knowledge. Such, at least, is the traditional wisdom. But it is not adequate to our time. . . . Today the distinction between pure and applied science is disappearing with the growth of state power so imperious and technologically competent, that it can transform the most esoteric knowledge into techniques of terror...
...number of Faculty advocates of the committee assume that a convincing case will not be made. As long as research conforms to Harvard's rule--that the source of funds doesn't matter provided the research is not secret--Faculty members are unlikely to find wisdom in other reasons for banning...
...today's impersonal, custom-made bureaucracy, which creates the fears responsible for man's isolating himself from men, and thus from God, any man with the wisdom and courage to seek God through close personal relationships with men or women is on the right track...
...Bible-quoting habit and throws verses at his siblings. A little girl combs her mother's hairpiece like a slave, then cultivates her own pigtail. These same little saints, when Charlie becomes their authority, take up cigarettes and twist in the halls. The Bible-quoter turns purveyor of whorish wisdom: "Men have their vices...
...past, and they are not the less the occasion for confidence on that score in the future. Our students today are not raising hell because they are mindless, but precisely because they are thoughtful. Which is a different thing from being wise, but surely a precondition of wisdom. All in all a good state of affairs for a society that can respond to it. The question is what that response is to be, and how it is to be mounted...