Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Eckstein and John Kenneth Galbraith. Paul M Warburg Professor of Economies, agreed on the wisdom of heavy expenditures for space exploration. Galbraith said Wednesday that he was "in favor of turning the arms race into an engineering competition...
Meeting of Hearts. Pope Paul and Patriarch Athenagoras, without question, had achieved a meeting of hearts. The Pope, the Patriarch said later, "is full of kindness, has a good heart, a fine mind, and is full of wisdom." But Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy are still nowhere near any meeting of minds, and neither participant at the meeting on the Mount of Olives is likely to see the two churches achieve genuine unity of action, much less corporate union...
...union. Athenagoras' ecumenical outlook is profoundly deplored by a majority of the twelve bishops on Greece's Holy Synod, which seems to believe that Orthodoxy can survive only apart from Rome-long-ago sponsor of the crusaders who despoiled Constantinople's Church of the Holy Wisdom...
...sheer brutality, as they did in the Spanish Civil War. Unamuno liked to compare himself to Don Quixote in his contradictions and paradoxes, and his critics have accepted the analogy. "He was refined and savage," said one, "modern and medieval, with the unction of an apostle and the wisdom of a picaro, a man in whom all the defects and virtues of the Spanish race seem to culminate...
...course, he is quite mad. With a heart torn by Angst for the decadence of the age, and a head full of apocalyptic hope, Brown keeps waiting for men from space to land on earth and solve all our problems with their miraculous source of power and wisdom. Through a mysterious, never elucidated grapevine, he gets word that the landing may soon occur in the tiny desert town of Twelvepalms, Arizona. Quitting his job and dodging inquisitive security men, he rushes off to meet THEM...