Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of us in the last decade have been disabused of the conviction that equates age with wisdom and experience with knowledge. As we look to the future of our great educational and scholarly institutions, we seek more than a reaffirmation of fundamental moral and societal values; we search for innovation in coming to grips with the dramatic transformations of post-industrial social relationships. And I, for one, am skeptical that the class of candidates being nominated have it within their scope of vision, intellectual or emotional, to lead our children through the formidable crises that will continue to divide...
High school principals, as a rule, seem fond of imparting to their college-bound seniors the wisdom that although they are now big fish in the little pond of Hometown High, they soon will find themselves little fish in the big ponds of the college campuses of their choice--faced with the excitement and danger of a new world...
After a seance with my baby brother, the Sultan of Swat, the Swami will utter the words of wisdom that every baseball afficionado years of each year at this time--baseball's pennant winners...
...KISSINGER'S ROLE. Kissinger showed great wisdom, worked very hard and used his great talents to try to bring the two sides together. But he was right not to come up with U.S. proposals. He tried to bridge the gap between the two sides. But the positions of the two sides on some key issues were irreconcilable. He had told us that Israel faces two options: to have an agreement or not to have an agreement. And he said that each one of them involved risks to Israel. I must admit that this did not come as news...
...officials, who viewed the pro-American, anti-Communist Faisal as a strong moderating influence in the Middle East, were shocked by the news of his death. In Washington, President Ford described him as "a close friend of the United States" whose "wisdom and stature earned the respect of the entire world." Ford dispatched Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to Riyadh to convey his condolences to the royal family. Secretary of State Kissinger, who had conferred with Faisal only six days earlier in Riyadh, spoke of the King's "extraordinary personality" and of his unique influence on "both the moderates...