Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When I first took the oath of office as President five and a half years ago, I made this sacred commitment: to consecrate my office, my energies and all the wisdom I can summon to the cause of peace among nations. I've done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge. As a result of these efforts, I am confident that the world is a safer place today, not only for the people of America but for the people of all nations, and that all of our children have a better chance...
...argues it shows the wisdom of our refusal to consider convertibility until we get a new monetary system...
...Your article mistakenly describes Justice William J. Brennan Jr. as 74 years old and a Republican. He is neither. A lifelong Democrat, the Justice is presently 68 years old. Given the depth of understanding and wisdom so often displayed in the Justice's opinions, it is not surprising that TIME might have thought that the Justice had served on the court an additional six years. However, as his past law clerks can readily attest, the Justice s remarkable physical vigor belies even his 68 years. Few other men-regardless of their age-begin each day at 5 a.m. with...
...things are when they exist beyond memory. Those who came of age in the '50s know better. To them the '50s were the embodiment of Dickens' phrase: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief ... it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair...
...tedium is the message. But Muggeridge is too canny an entertainer for that. In The Infernal Grove, the second volume of his autobiography, he writes with enough verve and instinct for artful exaggeration to keep a good novel spinning along. His pages are enlivened with provocations to conventional wisdom ("Innocence is often a quality of worldly success, as sophistication is of worldly failure" ... "News like sensuality is a passing excitement; perhaps the ultimate fantasy of all"). His characters-including a Who's Who of English politics, journalism and literature-are wickedly sketched, from the most obscure London banker...