Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...salute Goldwater's courage-whatever you think of his wisdom? Who was the last candidate you can recall with such guts? Here is a man who would rather be right (in a double sense) than President-if the choice must be made. A. CULVER GORDON Hawthorne...
...said that the world's best tribute to Nehru would be peace. Shastri held out a warm hand of friendship to neighboring Pakistan, regretting that the two countries have been so long at odds over Kashmir, and praised Pakistan's recent peace proposals as showing "wisdom and understanding." As for Red China, Shastri declared that Peking "has wronged us and deeply offended our government and people," but he also expressed a vague hope for negotiation...
...careful study of the issues involved-in contrast to an initial and unconsidered emotional reaction-a substantial body of thoughtful church-member opinion sees the dangers inherent in the practice of devotions in the public schools." Yet so far, laymen have not been convinced of the court's wisdom to the degree that clergymen are. The Rev. Shrum Burton, president of the Kansas City Council of Churches, explains that "some laymen have a vague feeling that we are losing all religion in public life and that something ought to be done, but they don't know what...
...Take care not to be pushy, either, added Calvin B. Hoover, Duke University economist who spoke at Duke. If anyone realizes that "you are grooming yourself for leadership, you will be considered the insufferable prig which you would be." And thus was Youth once again infused with the distilled wisdom of Age and Experience...
Restif's own sympathies were nonetheless with the aristocracy, and though he read rage in the eyes of the masses ("Statesmen, beware! A fateful revolution is approaching! The spirit of defiance is spreading!"), he thought it could be checked by the wisdom of Louis XVI-and by cutting laborers' wages to remove the temptation to idleness. But his vignettes of violent street scenes and underworld characters develop into a seething panorama of the revolutionary mob, culminating inevitably in massacres in the streets and prisons, and finally in the Reign of Terror. As for Restif himself, he was several...