Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purpose here is to see if, however slightly, one can rise above these rigidities. I do not wish to pretend to view our situation in Vietnam with any special insight or wisdom. These I do not claim, and even if I did so, I would be cautiously aware of our well-recognized and exceedingly valuable tendency to greet such pretension with something between skepticism and outright vulgarity. I would like merely to inquire how this conflict will look when minds, those of supporters and adversaries alike, are no longer subject to the congealing influences of war. And I would like...
...does, there is less certainty that the techniques proposed in the application will work. Though there is also no certainty in the predictions that the low-income residents in Eastern Cambridge will become increasing beleagured (and many of them slowly replaced), the hypothesis has become the Conventional Wisdom...
...Coolidge's job in 1937, had previously been with the New York Public Library--which had the best useable collection of Russian material in the United States at that time. But Metcalf's experience in New York and the tradition of Coolidge are hardly enough to explain the imaginative wisdom behind the purchase of the Trotsky papers. Metcalf recognized the immense historical value in obtaining the archives of a practicing revolutionary and when he learned that the papers were available he went out to look for money. He found a wealthy businessman, an alumnus, who was strongly interested in anti...
Primitive societies, in their simple wisdom, knew that sex could be propitiated only by rituals and taboos that handed on to succeeding generations the intuitive experience of the tribe. In our sophisticated world, there is only one efficacious object lesson in sex education-the authentic, God-given magic of unselfish parents who are loving and faithful to each other and to their offspring. The girl who fears motherhood does not lack accurate information so much as she lacks the reassuring experience, in her own life, of that genuine mother love "that casteth out fear." All the factual information...
Gibes & Outrage. The response to such diatribes was as quick as it was predictable. In leftist Algeria, where France has a big stake in oil production, the semiofficial newspaper lauded De Gaulle's "customary lucidity," his "striking lesson of wisdom and political courage." L'Humanité, the French Communist daily, praised the President's stand. And the official French radio network ecstatically reported that "all eyes" in New York had suddenly swiveled toward Paris...