Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Depravity. The Gnostics of early Christianity, who claimed to possess a "secret wisdom" left them by Jesus, argued that they were exempt from provisions of moral law, and for so believing were expelled from the church. The British monk Pelagius, who died around 418, in effect contended that man could achieve salvation by his own actions apart from God's gift of grace; he was formidably countered by St. Augustine of Hippo, who emphasized the utter depravity of man and the absolute necessity of Christ's death at Calvary for redemption...
...Received,from a House committee studying U.S. foreign aid, a report which, while approving a $4 billion authorization bill, sharply questioned the wisdom of continuing economic and military aid to such politically dubious nations as Indonesia. Said the report: "The committee does not wish to write off Indonesia as hopeless, but there is little to indicate that its government is less receptive to the blandishments of the Communist bloc or more ready to cooperate with...
...Ramsey is a ripe continuation of England's tradition of clerical eccentrics. He is the type of man who finds mud puddles appearing mysteriously in his path; his bulky purple cassock always seems ever so slightly askew. No one laughs. For warmhearted, avuncular Archbishop Ramsey also exudes the wisdom of a scholar and a deep-rooted faith, and seems every inch what he is in fact if not in name: patriarch of his arm of Christendom...
...good head ("he wrote a book, or sumpin'" a crewman remarks) but with a capacity for human error (he rams his boat into the dock, then gets it cut in half by a Japanese destroyer). Above all "the skinny, boyish lieutenant from Boston" is a fount of homely wisdom. One can sense the echo, if only dimly, of the famous Kennedy rhetoric: "They'll do a good job for us" he says of his crew, "if we do one for them...
Later that afternoon, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota thoughtfully questioned the wisdom of continued expansion of our enormous reserves of nuclear weapons. The senator noted that all authorities agree the United States currently possesses a staggering overkill capacity for any conceivable enemy. He asked the Senate if annual appropriations of billions of dollars to improve our more than adequate stockpile was militarily, economically, or morally justified...