Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the conventional wisdom, control of Congress has lain for the past four years in the hands of southern reactionaries, rich with seniority, entrenched in their committees. Naturally, this picture has been overdrawn. It has not applied much to the Senate since 1958, and the manuevers of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson have made it less and less relevant to the House. Now Johnson's landslide promises to make obsolete the cliche of Southern legislative obstruction...
...whole, however, the executions are impressive. With samples of the work of A.M. Cassandre, Herbert Matter, and Paul Rand among the ingeniously hung exhibits, it is impossible to miss the wisdom and purpose of Mr. Gregory's exhibition...
...bear no grudge against these parasites upon prediction in an era that slavers to know the future. It is not their fault that they are tolerated. Day after unchanging day, people pay to read the newspapers in which the seers spew forth their political wisdom. The people pay to read what they themselves will or may or might...
...goal for America, he declared, was to be called "the Great Society." Said he: "For half a century we called upon unbounded invention and untiring industry to create an order of plenty for all of our people. The challenge of the next half century is whether we have the wisdom to use that wealth to enrich and elevate our national life-and to advance the quality of American civilization...
...most of our friends have noted, each of the Presidential candidates was, at best, the lesser of two evils. So what was there to do but chide ourselves as ineffectual intellectuals as we stopped traffic while entering to grow in wisdom...