Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ignorance, and his refusal to patronize Indian civilization. Surely this vast culture has its own order which no Westerner can penetrate in two months. And surely there is no need to simplify or compromise it. Perhaps on his journey Malle learned the Indian virtue of humility. With all the wisdom of a grey-haired, bright-eyed maharaja he says we can only look at this foreign culture and beyond that "we are prisoners of our civilization, dreaming India...
...SENATORS: Once a question was put to a Senate chaplain, Edward Everett Hale. "Doctor, when you pray, do you look at the tragic condition of the country and then pray that the Almighty will give the Senators the wisdom to find solutions?" The chaplain replied, "No, I do not. I look at the Senators and pray for the country...
...guide colleges and universities as they, too, rethink their objectives. Since it is readily apparent that their degrees no longer ensure top jobs, colleges and universities must offer students far more than credentials. They must become more concerned with enhancing their students' lives -with helping a Maynard find wisdom or an Alsop acquire seasoning. Education may not be "the great equalizer of the conditions of men," as Horace Mann hoped, but it can still serve as a "balance-wheel of society" if it offers students different routes to follow according to their individual abilities and aspirations...
Even at its most eloquent moments, however, this Prometheus Bound is no more than good acting and clever staging, and the reason for the drama's failure lies in the nature of the Prometheus myth itself. The idea of an indifferent God whose supposed wisdom seems more like folly is familiar today; the words of those who urge the rebel to conform ring true. What is incredible about an expression of the Prometheus myth today is the concept of a savior of mankind. About the Titan's successful defiance of tyranny the play revolves; upon the distance of this idea...
...Hindu gods; some schools of Buddhism-Zen, for instance-still reflect a kind of agnosticism. But the basic spiritual focus in the many forms of Buddhism is the attainment of nirvana, an ineffable state of liberation and union with ultimate reality in which suffering is eliminated, and compassion and wisdom are attained...