Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Happily, we will not be entirely deprived of his wisdom. In his new duties, Grunwald will be involved in the editorial affairs of all Time Inc. publications, so TIME will continue to benefit from his keen journalistic...
...recollections of how the Harvard police, who had intentionally kept a low profile in 1969, were fond of going easy on students, often handing out fatherly lectures when summonses, or even worse, were in order. If the Cambridge department were filled with hard-nosed Sgt. Fridays, well, the popular wisdom had it that the University police operated more along the lines of "Car 54, Where...
...Menuhin's own rich humanity is made clear by such comments, his disarming idealism and fluent intelligence are equally manifest elsewhere. Whether he is describing (with unabashed pride) his efforts on behalf of Soviet dissidents or his defiance of apartheid, discoursing on acoustics, lauding Yoga and the wisdom of India with the divotion of discipleship, of opining on the different qualities of audiences around the world, one has the sense of sharing in the spontaneous conversation of an urbane and gracious friend...
...your story "Rape and Culture" [Sept. 12]: I am both dismayed and disgusted by the gross lack of humanity and wisdom displayed by Judge Simonson. Even if that poor girl were walking the halls naked, it still would not give anyone the right to touch...
...1930s, when early Eurocommunism caught on in my native Czechoslovakia, my grandfather came to the following conclusion: "In capitalism man exploits man, in Communism it is the other way around." France's New Philosophers have successfully recycled that piece of old conventional wisdom...