Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approve of busing." Hornbeck has written to Nixon asking for clarification "so that we may know which of the laws of the land are really the laws of the land." He has also written to Governor Ronald Reagan, who has blasted busing, asking him "to share your wisdom with us so that we may fulfill the requirements of the courts and laws of the nation without using buses...
...none materializes, the journal's epitaph could be a paraphrase of a sentiment expressed by Ransom about a poet in the Kenyon in 1964: Having achieved all the wisdom that was available to it, the Kenyon was ready to subside, happy but used up, into the annihilation of death...
Died. S.Y. Agnon, 81, Israel's most honored author and only Nobel laureate; of a heart attack; in Rehovot, Israel. Born in Galicia, victim and observer of half a century of stateless limbo in Europe, Agnon wrote with the wisdom of experience in his touching chronicles of the contemporary Wandering Jew-the nameless exile returned to the European town of his youth in A Guest for the Night; Kafkaesque fables of Jews transplanted from an ancient land to modern Israel in Two Tales. A virtual unknown in the West until 1966, when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...argue that tomorrow's vision is necessarily better than yesterday's, or that the Christian rebels are certain to be more accurate prophets than the Christian traditionalists. In an era of stress and uncertainty, those who stand and serve in obedience to the Holy See may ultimately demonstrate more wisdom than those who are challenging it. Despite the clamor for change on celibacy, there is no guarantee that marriage will become an option for priests of the future. Despite the promise of the Immaculate Heart experiment, there is no guarantee that it will be the model for future Christian communities...
...build a party apparatus, increase production, and figure out how their city, along with all the other torn, bloodied parts of China, might fit back into one whole. They faced this long haul, Vogel says, "with less optimism. less idealism, and less willingness to sacrifice," yet with "more wisdom and experience...