Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sending Galbraith as his ambassador to New Delhi, Kennedy deliberately chose a man who could be depended upon to bring to Indian problems his own mixture of sympathy and irony. Kennedy was delighted by Galbraith's wit, effrontery and unabashed pursuit of the unconventional wisdom, and they were now exceptionally good friends. Nor did the President appear to mind Ken's guerrilla warfare against the ikons and taboos of the Department of State. From time to time, the President took pleasure in announcing that Galbraith was the best ambassador...
Rusk is commonly labeled "colorless" and-notably by Schlesinger-"indecisive." Yet, as he points out, "the course of wisdom lies in reducing the impact which accidents of personality have upon the relations among nations." He deplores "making policy by phrase," usually writes statements and memos in tinder-dry language. Not that he is totally incapable of turning a wry phrase or cracking a joke. During the Cuban missile crisis, it was Rusk, after all, who commented: "We're standing eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked." Addressing 200 college-age members of the Senate Youth...
President Johnson argues that "in the states, in private business...the wisdom of longer terms for senior officials has come steadily to be recognized. State after State has adopted a four-year gubernatorial term." It is perhaps too obvious to suggest the irrelevance of this argument. A four-year gubernatorial term is indeed a progressive idea; but almost all these states retain two-year terms for their legislators for equally valid reasons. It is also impossible to follow the President's contention that better men will be attracted into government by a four-year term; on the contrary, many districts...
Shunning the status quo, Dean Sizer insists that Harvard should be concerned with "what schools should be like in the future, and to train people for service in them now." A school of education, he believes, must seek a balance between "the wisdom gained from detachment and that from commitment." The search for the proper mix between necessary involvement in social reform and a more aloof and thoughtful attitude toward education is nothing new, in Sizer's view, but the challenge for Harvard is that "no institution has so far achieved...
...justification for an activist court, is that Frankfurter didn't realize how much a part of the political process the Court is. He shows that the Court, in fact, legitimizes laws that it upholds. The effects of its rulings are the same as if it were passing on the wisdom of laws, even though it would like to pass only on their constitutionality. Conversely, the Court is subject to political checks. To talk of its imposing its will against the will of a determined public is to neglect the powers of amendment, limitation of jurisdiction, packing, and new appointments...