Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since then, the World Council has grown steadily to its present membership of over 200 churches, with congregations totaling nearly 400 million Christians. At every step of the Council's development, Willem Visser't Hooft has made his leadership and wisdom felt. It was he who paved the way for the historical entry of the Eastern Orthodox churches into the World Council in 1962. He has taken a first hand interest in racial problems in South Africa as well as in missionary work all over the globe. Although he directs an international staff of 150 people...
MARY, MARY. A soupcon of wisdom, a lot of wit are laced into Jean Kerr's zingy comedy about marriage-on-the-rocks. Debbie Reynolds and Barry Nelson star in the screen version of the play...
...meant to deliver at noon. Its concluding words: "We in this country, in this generation, are-by destiny rather than choice-the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask therefore that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility-that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint-and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of 'peace on earth, good will toward men.' That must always be our goal-and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. Or, as was written long...
...group I've encountered has a corner on wisdom or virtue...
...Wisdom. The sum of O'Hara's wisdom could be denigrated as nothing more than commonplace knowledge that comes with age. His snobs, after all, only face the fact that, in age as in youth, life chooses our friends for us, and it is wise to make the best of them. But in reaching backward to follow their progress, O'Hara is able to dip into the sounds and sights and thoughts of four decades of American life. "The United States in this century is what I know," he explained not long ago, "the way people talked...