Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Climate of Fear. Gerhard (TIME, Jan. 18, 1963) approached the novel almost piously, and his libretto lost little of the power of Camus' bitter wisdom: as in the novel, the rats may be real, but the plague is only a shadow of the greater horrors man makes for himself. "The plague," said Conductor Antal Dorati, "is all diseases of the mind, every dictatorship, every war, and there is no real freedom as long as there are pestilences. The rats may come again to the happy city. This is the message...
...might hold forth on the great men he personally knew well--Whitehead, Sibelius, Harvey Cushing, Santayana, Rolland, Koussevitzky, Sir Richard Livingstone, Gilbert Murray, Samuel Eliot Morison; or on the things absorbed into his marrow--the sweep of Homer, the wisdom of Sophocles, the vitality of Michelangelo, the depth of Beethoven, the ironies of Stendhal, the scope of Goethe, the imagination of Berlioz, the thrust of Ibsen, the grandeur of Wagner, the vigor of Whitman...
...concerning the war in South Viet Nam. From Moscow Nikita Khrushchev sent a message supporting the conference plan. And Charles de Gaulle, offering to work for a compromise, in a letter to Sihanouk counseled patience in the year's most magnificent diplomatic hyperbole: "I trust in the calm wisdom of Your Royal Highness...
...sound of the rain will wake some lovers, and that its sound will seem to be a part of that force that has thrust them into one another's arms. Then I sit up in bed and exclaim aloud to myself, 'Valor! Love! Virtue! Compassion! Splendor! Kindness! Wisdom! Beauty!' The words seem to have the colors of the earth, and as I recite them I feel my hopefulness mount until I am contented and at peace with the night...
America's dealings with Cuba and Vietnam will be the real test of "its wisdom and humanity," and a trial of America's adjustment to the emergence of socialism throughout the world, I. F. Stone said last night at Kirkland House...