Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lillian Smith carried her advocacy of nonviolence into the political field, joined the fledgling Congress of Racial Equality in 1946 and worked alongside the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. "The means," she insisted, "must be full of truth and love and wisdom." This summer, sickened by the rise of the black-power movement, she angrily disavowed both organizations, charging that S.N.C.C. had been perverted by "a mixed-up mess of 19th century anarchism and 1930s Communism...
Marcos responded by discarding a memorized four-paragraph speech for a longer, more emotional, off-the-cuff oration. The President of the Philippines paid feeling tribute to the President of the U.S.-who needs every encomium he can get. "We thank you for utilizing your powers with restraint and wisdom," said Marcos. "Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone." Thanking the U.S. for moving so swiftly after World War II to grant the Philippines independence after 48 years of colonial rule...
...Solomonic wisdom of U.S. judges may sometimes be open to question. But even critics agree that the bench is trying. Some recent decisions...
Brooding Evil, Deep Wisdom. To celebrate his permanent feast of images, ranging over a span of 40 years, a display of 337 of his photographs- opened last week in the Exhibition Center of the Time and Life Building in Manhattan. Derived in large part from his 1,728 assignments for LIFE in the past 30 years, the record astonishes both by its variety-How could any man have been in so many crucial places?-and its perception. The marvel is finally not the Leica that Eisenstaedt used, but the personal eye behind the shutter...
...Sophia Loren in Marriage-Italian Style, a picture that revealed her as the love goddess of her age, while remembering her as "the nicest and hardest-working movie actress I have ever met"? That the same eye should also have seen the brooding evil in Goebbels in 1933 and wisdom deep in the eyes of Edward Teller in 1963 testifies to Eisenstaedt's undimmed perception, which makes him at 67 a photographer without peer...