Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concrete circumstances to which the principle must be applied. In the knowledge of these circumstances, the President would be expert, not the confessor. No one-bishop, pastor or confessor-can free him from the responsibility for making his own decision on matters of this kind. I know of no wise confessor who would dare impose an obligation in such matters except in the most clear-cut cases of dishonesty." Since President Kennedy has taken some public positions which do not agree with those of the Catholic hierarchy, said Father Reedy, "a few of the religious spokesmen who voiced the gravest...
...Eagerly waiting at the field was their brood of seven, which had prepared a skit parodying the parental trip. But before the breathless kids could go onstage, the nation's business intervened again. "We're going to the White House," announced the Attorney General. Wondered his Washington-wise wife: "To get debriefed...
Washington's concern about the speech was based on the discussions over what form the forthcoming 18-nation disarmament conference in Geneva should take (see THE WORLD). At this point, truly tough talk might not be wise. As a result, about the most stirring thing Kennedy was permitted to say was: "We do not feel that the maintenance of the integrity of West Berlin threatens any legitimate interests of the Soviet Union, and we remain confident that in due course this problem will be solved through the processes of peaceful negotiation." Many West Berliners left the auditorium still feeling...
...domestic policy, but to the very survival of politics in the cold war. Those who support the present Administration dare not express their approval by inaction--and if they wish to preserve the political viability of present policies, much less any liberalization of them, it would perhaps be wise that their more liberal views find vocal expression. It is vital to the nation's political survival that Congress realize that the Administration has national support for its foreign policies; it is essential that this support be vocalized if the Administration is to have any chance to liberalize its policies without...
...Sage Observations." Since Roosevelt's death, the Russians have often held up his policies as an object lesson to other U.S. Presidents on how to deal with the Soviet Union. And so it was last week. Said Pravda, making the point bluntly: "It would be wise for present-day Western statesmen who assert that coexistence is a trap set by Communists to remember [President Roosevelt's] sage observations...