Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rising clergyman can win a reputation for wisdom in his sermons by using such phrases as "Christ-centered" and "faith of our fathers." Another favorite phrase is "holiness unto the Lord. No one has a clue to what this means, but it is one of the most soul-satisfying phrases in the lexicon." References to sin and sinners are always welcome, for they conjure up "images of orgies and black lingerie." Nothing makes the congregation feel so good as singing hymns like C. Austin Miles's In the Garden, which mentions the first personal pronoun 27 times...
...Faculty, in its infinite wisdom, has always maintained control of educational policy and will clearly continue to do so. There is, however, a legitimate role for students in this realm. The Faculty needs--and occasionally desires--feedback from its pedagogical efforts. Intelligent and constructive criticism of academic policies from students can produce changes. But under the present Council, neither reasoned comment nor intelligent criticism has been forthcoming...
Saying, however, that he doubted the Soviets, because of domestic difficulties, had any desire to become involve, Hoffmann questioned the wisdom of scheduling the retaliatory bombings to coincide with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin's presence in North Vietnam...
...while a member of the Higher Institute of Brazilian Studies, he published Nationalism in Brazilian Reality, which questioned the wisdom of complete nationalization of Brazil's petroleum resources. The book failed to please extremists on either the left or the right, and touched off a heated debate in the course of which Jaguaribe resigned from the Institute. The Institute was later abolished by the 1964 revolutionary forces because of alleged Marxist control...
...will shortly leave the Army; in the meantime, his brief military career is interesting, mainly as an illustration of the versatility, the pushing energy, and--its complement--the precocious worldly wisdom of the man. In less than four years he has seen something of three campaigns--not an ungenerous allowance for a field officer of longer service than Mr. Churchill counts years of life...