Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast to the accuracy and wisdom of Bate's book stands Aileen Ward's John Keats: The Making of a Poet. Miss Ward's book was published barely a week before Bate's and, surprisingly, neither author was aware of the other's project. Not so surprising actually, since one biography is a masterful, magnificent study, and the other is an over-written attempt at literary psychoanalysis...
...other candidates--State Representative Julius Ansel (the dark horse), City Councillor Patrick F. McDonough, and William P. Foloy--have concentrated almost exclusively on attacking Collin's administration. Their strategy may be considered a tribute to Collins's wisdom in the 1959 primary, when Senate President John Powers was heavily favored. Collins built his campaigns around Powers, not around issues, and was elected mayor by a record margin...
...question was the system imposed on the Defense Department by McNamara. Said Anderson: "Overcentralized structures are conducive to the abuse of power and compounding of mistakes. Monolithic-structured organizations can kill imagination, stultify initiative, completely eliminate the effectiveness of those in the officer corps who have gained wisdom and experience...
...authorization had come to the House floor only after a highly skeptical report was made by the Foreign Affairs Committee. Why, asked the committee, should the U.S. taxpayer be required to help an anti-American, Communist-leaning country like Indonesia? The report questioned the wisdom of continuing open-handed aid to the politically unstable Near East-Israel and its Arab enemies. It recommended that Congress consider the "withholding of economic assistance from those countries which persist in policies of belligerence and in preparations for their execution." It suggested drastic reductions in aid to both India and Pakistan until they settle...
...posthumous masterpiece, which is arguably the finest Italian novel of the century, Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa, treats of these matters with an irony that seems half wisdom and half love, and in a style as rich and dark and subtle as old Marsala. In this film, Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) preserves the author's tone as well as his tale, and in the course of three occasionally tedious hours develops a composite portrait of a time, a place and a man that finally emerges as a splendid set piece of cinema...