Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rooms, Tutor' rooms and offices, and Masters' houses). This move has been strongly resisted by some of the Masters. There are two reasons for this resistance. First, there was concern for the safety of students acting as untrained patrolmen and carrying such keys. Secondly, there was concern for the wisdom of entrusting these keys to graduate and undergraduate students who had had little if any clearance. It may be that we are too sensitive to this aspect of security. But certainly we should have been considered derelict in our duty if we had given students access to keys during...
...developing intellect may bring with it a ruthless hunt for truth repelling all human contact; and that sensuality in itself can only occasionally relieve the pain of a personal void, and might even start a personality festering. The film is Bergman's most complete response to the traditional wisdoms: persevere in faith and you'll be rewarded, gain understanding and wisdom will be yours, love is easy for the loving...
...only reflect on what we may have learned and think of all those who paid the price for that wisdom...
...academics to do as they please--to wander off for an unspecified number of years like a prodigal son, commit war crimes or participate in an immoral presidency--then it is difficult to defend. If academic freedom involved the freedom to advance opinions and theories violating the popular wisdom then it shouldn't be controversial...
...nothing else, the Panama City session will probably worsen the U.N.'s already low standing with the White House and Congress. "If any Congressman had doubts about the wisdom of cutting back contributions to the U.N.,"says one State Department official, "the vote approving the Panama session dashed them...