Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FURTHERMORE, the legislation exhorts the Faculty to acknowledge the individualized student-professor relationship as the ideal tutorial goal. Again head tutors are less than obliging. McKinsey said she thinks graduate students make up for their lack of experience with their youthful verve. Besides, she reasons, "You can get the wisdom of the old gray heads in lectures." McKinsey perhaps has a point. But more pertinent is the irritating freedom with which she and others permit their personal opinion to take precedence over Faculty-wide directives. By such retorts these head tutors flout not only the goals of this latest...
...estranged daughter. When she finally tells him of her affair with a man even older than her father, offering Dubin a perfect opening to finally unburden himself about his love for Fanny Bick, he lets the opportunity pass. Instead he delivers a tired, paternal lecture, retreating into the mythical wisdom he supposedly possesses as a biographer intimate with the lives of the great. Even when his wife discovers his affair with Fanny and the lame excuse of "protecting" her is gone, he still hasn't the nerve to give up his comfortable prison...
Jimmy Carter pondered the barbs from Mexico's President José López Portillo a few days ago, and momentarily wondered if he should respond. Then in a fraction of a second he decided that the better part of wisdom and the greater part of courage for the leader of a superpower was to sit calmly and quietly. In Mexico there was some grudging appreciation. In America, beset by too many inner doubts, there was plenty of criticism...
Editor Sally Fitzgerald has performed a labor of love and an act of model scholarship. When factual information is needed, she gives it succinctly and then stands back. This record of a remarkable life is an occasion for sadness, a reminder of wisdom cut off much too soon. But the emotion that Flannery O'Connor conveyed most often was joy, and this survives intact. Once a correspondent had suggested that someone would write a life of the author. Flannery pooh-poohed the idea...
Thus our value is humanistic. Our pedagogy, therefore, is a pedagogy of humanism where man stands as the supreme value. Not property, not the sacredness of man-made systems; not the elaborate web of superstitious practices, but man in his poeticised wisdom and folly, his strength and his weakness, his beauty and his ugliness... but always...