Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nine new members, appointed by the House Masters, should be added. These men, eliminated when the Council was reorganized, have been missed. Many bright and imaginative students either cannot win or will not run in elections, and the Council suffers from the loss of their wisdom...
...foreign-policy approaches, there is always the danger of a misstep. Johnson, for instance, almost certainly overreacted to Fidel Castro's nuisance-value move of cutting off Guantanamo's water supply. He has got to learn that activity, or even action, is not to be equated with wisdom. And he seems to be more thin-skinned than a Texan should be over criticism of his conduct of foreign affairs. Last week, before a group of Internal Revenue agents, he made some petulant off-the-cuff remarks in defense of his record...
...times of the French Enlightenment, Houdon became one of the first sculptors to live independent of noble patronage. He did the great intellects: Voltaire, Diderot, Condorcet, D'Alembert, Buffon. Commissions then brought him to the young U.S. to sculpt Washington in his stolid soldierliness, Franklin in his honest wisdom, Jefferson in his aristocratic brilliance...
...America. But these are the faintest echo chambers for the conflict that split Thomas' skull. The torment of the lyric poet is that lyric poetry is essentially a young man's form. The time comes when the world must be seen more through the eyes of wisdom than of wonder. The romantic in Dylan Thomas would not or could not meet the demands and responsibilities of age. Dylan, the play, shadows the eternally youthful hell raiser, but only Alec Guinness, the actor, probes the special hell in which the man lived...
...past has varied from a transcendent Hickey in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh to an abysmal attempt at Macbeth. But here he is playing at his best--a performance of enormous power and rich detail. At first I felt his diction was too monochromatic. But the wisdom of this became apparent when he burst forth later in the argument over tattling to Congress, or reacted to the news of Lou's suicide, or carried on the climactic battle with Maggie...