Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industrial park, for example, brings 1) economic prosperity, 2) a larger population that will need additional space-consuming highways, and 3) air pollution. The kids then decide what to do by discussions ending in a democratic vote. As new projects cover the board, the children can see the ecological wisdom-or folly-of their decisions...
During the 16th and 17th century missionary campaigns in Asia, several of the early Jesuit efforts were impressively productive. In China, Father Matteo Ricci put on the dress of a Confucian scholar and won widespread respect both for his scientific expertise and for the wisdom of Catholic teaching. In India, Father Roberto de Nobili assumed the saffron robes and vegetarian diet of a Hindu sannyasi, or holy man. He used the Hindu vedas to teach about Christ and won converts among the Brahmans themselves...
...with Rome. In fact, suggests Friedenthal, "it would be as correct to speak of the age of Fugger as the age of Luther." There are other instructive asides: though Luther could more than hold his own in Latin debate, he could hardly add simple sums. In other respects, his wisdom was commonsense, not classic, the product of roadside conversations on his walking trips through Germany. At home, he deferred to his energetic wife Kathe, who not only managed to control 16 children (her own and relatives') but took in boarders...
First published in France in 1964, the "fragments" of The Fall into Time are described by their author as "rather like sermons." The chapter headings are suggestive: "The Tree of Life," "Is the Devil a Skeptic?" "On Sickness," "The Dangers of Wisdom." If Cioran, against his will, can be taken as a spokesman for our times, it is because he so excruciatingly expresses the dilemma of the man born too late to be a Christian and too early to be anything else...
...subject say quite clearly that if the United States were to win they will support it. Take somebody like Arthur Schlesinger. He's been absolutely explicit. He says, if, contrary to my judgment, the government proves to have been successful, then we will all be applauding the wisdom an statesmanship of the government. And I don't think that statement is in any sense outlandish. I think it does reflect the almost automatic opinion of liberal America on the subject. Which isn't terribly surprising. The Germans were perfectly civilized people. Would they have opposed the war if they...