Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hope for the help of the Lord," Speer observes somewhat scornfully, "Silly, to take any stock in that." But he seldoms mentions religious matters, much less his own spirituality. Then suddenly, in 1962, he writes simply, "I believe in a divine providence; I also believe in God's wisdom and goodness; I trust in his ways." What brought about this startling conversion goes unexplained. In any case, the sentiments apparently did not remain with Speer: that entry four years before his release is his last reference to God or religion...
ACCORDING TO THE current conventional wisdom, Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana lost in last Tuesday's Massachusetts presidential primary because he was "everybody's second choice." The real reasons for his poor showing and subsequent withdrawal, however, lie in a series of miscalculations by his campaign staff, both at the national level and in Massachusetts...
Jewish writers have contributed to American literature a new style that fuses "gutter street wisdom and graduate school learning," author Irving Howe said in a speech at Harvard Hall yesterday...
...large American companies (it was disclosed last year that Gulf had contributed several million dollars to PC election campaigns). But of all the politicians in Italy the DC anti-Communists to whom the money was presumably targeted are perhaps the most corrupt. One recently retired State Department official, with wisdom evidently lacking in his superiors, remarked, "You can bet a lot of that money will end up in villas, vacation homes and Swiss bank accounts in the names of Italian politicians." As should have been apparent to the State Department by now, aiding anti-Communists in this manner is like...
...American character, etc. "We've got a good country," he says, mountains, fields, streams, valleys, you name it. "And we have a good system of government. Nixon, Watergate, Vietnam, Cambodia, ... haven't hurt it." There are problems, Carter says--unemployment, inflation--but he believes in the American character: "strength, wisdom, intelligence, courage..." The only specific solution he volunteered that was close to being specific was a new "sunshine law" to "open up the government" to public scrutiny...