Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...geographic and other forces, and which defies full comprehension when seen through the rational eyes of Western people," said Sato. "A spirit of tolerance and harmony, in particular, is essential in dealing with the problems of Asia. The establishment of peace and freedom in this area requires enormous effort, wisdom and time...
...long-legged birds were wrapped in cloth, stuffed into pottery jars, and piled up like bricks. Digging deeper in the ground, Emery found an amazing network of ancient tunnels, most of them piled to their roofs with ibis mummies. Since the ibis was an Egyptian symbol of wisdom, they indicated to Emery that somewhere near by had stood the long-lost shrine of Imhotep, the Egyptian father of medicine, who was probably the first intellectual to impress his name on history...
...Hackett are admirable foils. He paints the clown-husband character with broad vaudevillian brush strokes. She is a comic pointilliste, and her precise inflections of wifeliness dot the brain like a quiver of hatpins. Peterpat sometimes gets enveloped in the vapors of farce, but one deep breath of comic wisdom animates it-marriage is as funny as hell...
Yesterday's $12.5 million grant to Harvard by the Ford Foundation was not a windfall; rather, it is the direct result of President Pusey's unexampled patience and foresight as a fund-raiser. Congratulations are also due the Foundation, which directed its generosity with wisdom. Harvard, though widely respected for its faculty in most of the social sciences, has always been weak in "area studies," particularly in African and Latin American affairs; the Ford money will greatly strengthen these studies...
There may be much wisdom in Johnson's present watchful waiting. But his relative inaction, especially concerning Viet Nam-where he insists that the U.S. must neither retreat nor expand the war-has created a kind of vacuum. And this vacuum is encouraging a growing chorus advocating U.S. withdrawal or something close to it (see following story). Therein lies perhaps the greatest challenge to Lyndon Johnson's potentially excellent first full term: he will have to master the Great Society, foreign division...