Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American Jew who has lived with a "blind" hatred toward all Arabs. I never thought anything would make me alter my feelings, but Sadat demonstrated to me through his wisdom and courage that nothing is more important than the attainment of peace-not tradition, not pride, not even life itself. I will always feel that the world has lost a man who may have changed the meaning of life for all of us. Barbra Christodoulidis Cheltenham...
...QUENTIN CRISP and Donald Carroll had lived in the 14th century, they might have practiced alchemy. As 20th century analysts of human personality, they remain as far from refining the perfect drop of behavioral wisdom as medieval alchemists were from producing gold. To them, possessing style is a lot like belonging to a finals club: After fussing and fiddling with your personality and habits, you are somehow elevated to a new position in life. What Crisp and Carroll try to demonstrate is a method for turning style into substance. Can they really hope to succeed in proving that black...
...which she does not exercise, to comment either bitterly or smugly about the dangers Bernard and Mathilde court by courting. Indeed, the script provides an opportunity for her to mirror their situation, which she avoids by tactful, exemplary retreat. Like her creator, she is content with compassion and the wisdom that accrues to those who observe life clearly and without resort to dubious generalizations. Bless them both...
Morell is a pompous minister and a spellbinder in the pulpit. Marchbanks is a physical coward who baits people by ventilating their pretensions. His strength is a burning sense of vocation. Candida is an alluring marvel of self-control with wisdom flowing through every artery...
...response to the letter of October 15 by Alan L. Jackson, Errol T. Louis, Abner A. Mason and Brian M. Weber--members of the William J. Seymour Society--we, too, as Christians of African descent, pray that Blacks will also heed the biblical wisdom imparted by Proverbs, Chapter 25, Verses...