Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sick Man of Europe. The torch of Islamic empire-building passed in time from Arab to Seljuk to Mongol to Ottoman Turk. All the while, Islam was intellectually withdrawing from engagement with alien thought, under the influence of the mystical Sufis, and the orthodox ulama (scholars) who saw all wisdom in the Koran and Moslem tradition. By the 19th century, Islam was enfeebled in body as well as spirit; lands once ruled by Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent became European protectorates; Turkey, resident of the impotent caliphs, was the "sick man of Europe...
...menacing when they are seen through the clear, uncompromising eyes of the comic-strip kids from Peanuts. The wry and wistful characters created by Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz have all but come to life for readers in the U.S. and abroad as they demonstrate daily and Sunday an engaging wisdom beyond their years, a simplistic yet somehow impressive understanding of the assorted problems that perplex their elders...
...Council like wolves across the steppe, it became quickly plain that this method of peace-keeping would not work. In fact, the military staff committee still exists, but its U.S. representative, Lieut. Colonel Victor de Guinzbourg, is noted mostly for his compilation of a volume entitled Wit and Wisdom of the U.N. (Sample wisdom from Japan: "A wise man is impartial, not neutral; a fool is neutral, but not impartial"; from East Africa: "Nine is very near...
...Cream & Corn. Presiding over all this fun and fanfare is Richard Fargo Brown, at 48 one of the younger major U.S. museum directors, and a man who, in a young city that thrives on cultural imbroglios, thrives on his wit and wisdom. A jocular scholar who is apt to bump into trustees with a chocolate ice cream cone in his hand, Brown is an artist's son and a Bucknell University scholarship student (he was a four-letter man in high school) who got an M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard, then perfected his taste with five years...
...little worried, though, because my copy of "How to Finish High School at Home" was addressed to Plymouth Street instead of Plympton and reached me only through the wisdom of the post office. When you write for your copy, be sure to get your address right. The long and lonesome wait for the registrar to come is hard, is hard...