Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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REMINISCENCES, by Douglas MacArthur. The grand strategist concentrates on World War II, the occupation of Japan, and Korea. The generosity and wisdom that characterized his leadership in the reconstruction of Japan are told with restraint, his firing by Truman in Korea as bitterly as if it had happened yesterday. A good writer, MacArthur comes through as a proud, realistic and yet oddly romantic...
...combustible as obscenity and miscegenation cannot simply look up the answers in a law book. All the written Constitution gives him is a scant 7,000 words of Delphic injunctions and 18th century specifics. To this he must add all he can muster of history, judgment and personal wisdom-the highest kind of statesmanship. Whatever the Constitution's framers envisioned, mused Justice Robert H. Jackson, "must be divined from materials almost as enigmatic as the dreams Joseph was called upon to interpret for Pharaoh...
...Goldwaterite absurdities, takes issue with none of Humphrey's compassion but very definitely with his propensity for converting compassion into instant action. Humphrey's book virtually oscillates between sighs of concern and ambitious plans for new Federal commissions, and one needn't embrace reaction to question the wisdom of this congested flow of proposals...
...Dahlberg is not proselytizing in his autobiography. Rather than propounding a theory about desire, he is exploring the drives shared by all men, the drives which created and sustained and tormented his mother and himself. And Dahlberg brings to this exploration all the wisdom and all the erudition which he has acquired. Because he is not proselytizing, he does not share the limits of other autobiographers...
Late Monday night Roy Wilkins visited FDP spokesman Aaron Henry and urged him to back down. Henry refused and the Party lost NAACP support. Rauh and King continued to counsel firmness. The wisdom of their resolve was proven Tuesday when the Administration offered a fresh compromise, giving the Freedom Party two at-large seats on the floor. Under intense Presidential pressure, New York and California, the core of the FDP's support, agreed to the proposal. In a hurried caucus of the Freedom delegation, Rauh and King urged the Party to accept the compromise and hail it as a great...