Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Folly pursues us at every stage of our lives. If someone seems wise, it is only because his follies befit his age and his position...
...customs," Soustelle told the bearded oldsters. And to a group of young oil truckers he said: "But now I bring you a message from De Gaulle. That message is that, united in our effort for peace and prosperity, we will have them both and more. If we are wise enough to work together, we cannot fail." . We Will Never Leave. For four 18-hour days, at walled village after village, he went through the same routine-the greeting of the pipers, the investiture of new mayors and councilmen, the decorating of soldiers and civilians with everything from...
...films was the only one she ever made with both her brothers, Rasputin and the Empress. In 1936 she announced her retirement from the stage; scarcely a year later she was back on the boards in The Ghost of Yankee Doodle. In 1940 her portrayal of the wise, warmhearted schoolmistress in The Corn Is Green became her greatest triumph. Audiences still cheered her on to her familiar curtain-call farewell: "That's all there is, there isn't any more...
Citation: "Both church and learning have been served by the vigorous ministry of this wise and generous...
Citation: "A jovial soul of magnetic human qualities, wise of statecraft and learned in the law, in the fashion of one inured to the blasts that torment the summit of Everest, he mans his lofty eminence with serenity and aplomb begat of a stout heart and the instinct for unswerving rectitude...