Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life of a "prole-bohemian," he said, "I think she was basically interested in me as a Yale grad student. Love should be devoid of status factors, but of course it never is. Yes." The experience of manual labor left him with the conviction that there is no wisdom in the common man. He has never voted, and thinks politics are a matter of "parcelling out road contracts...
...stayed on." Hershey's philosophy is simple: "We count 'em, cart 'em and send 'em." He has spent most of his career supplying manpower to the military, but he thinks himself as much a politician as a soldier. And he has enormous faith in the wisdom of his "constituents" -- the 4,000 local draft boards that classify 1.4 million men accross the country every year...
...admission, illegitimate, ugly and homosexual. She has managed to put all these dubious assets to some use: she is a writer of autobiographies, of which La Bâtarde, her fifth, was a considerable success in existential circles. It is a success based not on wit, wisdom or literary grace but on the unpleasant pleasure many people find in watching someone else behave shamelessly. Violette Leduc, shameless to the point of masochism, confesses to her greed and petty thievery, her gluttony, her love of begging and pleading, her torturing of others, her self-obsessive use of sex. "Violette Leduc weeps...
...contrast to the impressively knowledgeable campaign of protest and persuasion being waged over the war in Vietnam. Those of us who might join the SDS if only to disprove the hypothesis that the smallness of its membership implies a lack of support for its Vietnam policy must reconsider the wisdom of such affiliation. This kind of impulsive action can only bring the SDS into disrepute among its friends as well as its enemies. Fred M. Leventhal '60 Teaching Fellow in History
...publicly burned by church authorities as late as 1599. Even Jews have revolted against the burden of its teaching. The 8th century Karaites rejected the authority of the Talmud for the simplicity of the Bible message alone. Today Reform Jews tend to regard it as a record of past wisdom rather than as an essential of their faith...