Word: wisdoms
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Gideon shows that the "due process" clause of the 14th Amendment now appears to compel the states to apply the guarantees of the Constitution's Bill of Rights in toto. Justice Harlan alone expressed serious reservations regarding the legality and wisdom of this principle...
...eight years Milton Eisenhower traveled through Latin America as personal representative and Special Ambassador for his brother, the President of the United States. From those ramblings and a "life time of interest," Dr. Eisenhower has compiled a wealth of wisdom about the interamerican community. Part anecdote, part admonition, The Wine Is Bitter (Doubleday, 342 pp., $4.95) is the story of an American and the Americas...
...Luther nails his 95 theses to the Wittenberg door, he is summoned by the papal legate Cajetan (John Moffatt). Cajetan is a sly Roman cat who hopes to toy with a provincial mouse. Instead he faces a German mas tiff, correct but bristling. Cajetan employs tact, diplomacy, the accumulated wisdom of the church. Held in the awe some grip of revealed truth, Luther will not budge unless he can be refuted by Scripture. Cajetan pleads with him not to rend the seamless unity of the Christian world: "I beg of you, my son, retract." With nerves clenched more tightly than...
...Ellis and orate in stiff English on the wonders of coeducational outhouses ("the one true democracy"), the Social Aid Hut where husbands suffering from frigid wives can go for relief, and the absurdity of necking. The invaders represent a spectrum of heterosexual appetites and respond to the natives' wisdom according to their own maladies. One shows the bored natives dirty pictures, another dances with her breasts bare, a third settles down to life as a sort of U.S. sex attache...
...Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, First and Second Maccabees, parts of Esther and Daniel...