Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost the same time Galbraith spoke, Walter Lippman '10 was making some of the same points in a speech in California. Modern man, he said, has been emancipated from traditional authority and is now looking for some reservoir of wisdom and truth from which he can draw. Lippman suggested that the universities will ultimately take on this role, even in areas of public policy...
...Colette (1873-1954) was the most important woman novelist that the French have produced in a century; this magnificent collection of her random reminiscences shows that she was just as important as a memoirist, a female Montaigne who drank the cup of folly till she tasted the dregs of wisdom...
...most important woman novelist (Chéri, Gigi, Mitsou, Claudine) the French have produced in a century; this magnificent collection of her random reminiscences shows that she was just as important as a memoirist, a female Montaigne who drank the cup of folly till she tasted the dregs of wisdom...
Only heresy really scandalized Father Singer, who kept as closely as possible within the confines of his own Orthodox home, rarely even stepping out onto the balcony. By 1914, all that was changing. While elderly rabbis dreamed up endless commentaries on the commentators on the law and books of wisdom, young intellectuals were turning socialist, reading Dostoevsky, shaving off their earlocks, or sailing for New York. Encouraged by his rebellious elder brother, I. J. Singer, young Bashevis thrust increasingly beyond the limits of his Orthodox childhood into the world of intellectuals and artists. He records with touching candor the delight...
...busy to pay my respects to a great American." The 33rd President, Harry Truman, need never have doubted that the phone call would come at his 82nd birthday party, for Lyndon Johnson holds no man living in greater esteem. "We've had 13 years to see the wisdom of your policies," said Johnson. Then he chuckled: "I have often thought you'd rather have your friends cussing you than praising you, but you'll have to go right on paying the price of greatness." Beamed Harry: "I can't agree that it was great...