Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sufficient numbers for the Director to report to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences a "defeat of their yearning for a sense of purpose." The wonderful things we have been told about ourselves don't really satisfy, and I guess James Baldwin, speaking with the wisdom of the oppressed, had us best in hand...
...precisely those defenses and advantages which have proven so necessary to survival in a malevolent environment. One fears a loss of "individuality" and "sensibility," little knowing that it is only in a community of equals that real love-risks may be taken, a full range of feelings shared, or wisdom truly nurtured...
...resound with a clarity that comes from sparse language and a discerning eye for only the most important details. And through this clarity, a stark precision that has captured the lives of a very small segment of mankind, there comes a kind of broader perspective I can only call wisdom because it seems so rare in the modern short story...
Ford seems now on the verge of making motion the major device of his leadership. All through the State Department last week there were doubts about the wisdom of the China trip. The top men in Peking are sick and aged, distrustful of our overtures to the Soviet Union. No real diplomatic business can be transacted. "He's going because he wants to," explained one diplomat...
...faces in the audience, returning continually to one, the wondering, wise countenance of a girl who seems ageless. Recalling the director's childhood memories of the opera, she could serve as a surrogate for Bergman and perhaps for all of us. In her is reflected the joy and wisdom of The Magic Flute, which Bergman has captured here forever...