Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council's recommendation for an "orientation Smoker" early in the Fall is therefore a wise one. Getting acquainted is a problem of the weeks of adjustment, a problem of the first term, not the second. Only if the Smoker takes place in the first weeks of the school year can the affair realize its aim by introducing freshmen to their classmates...
Metcalf added, "This decision was reached on the basis that pressure for space did not make the shift necessary, and that there was enough opposition to the proposal to make it wise to reach this negative conclusion...
...record of our failures ... to this date is sobering enough in itself. But consider the smugness with which the Administration policymakers have accepted their failures ... It takes smugness to try to stifle critics, as the Democratic candidate did last week, with the epigram that 'A wise man does not try to hurry history.' Every American knows the answer to that one. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over...
GEORGE SANTAYANA was one of the three immensely old wise men of the West, though his influence in philosophy and affairs could not be compared to that of his fellows and contemporaries, Benedetto Croce or Bertrand Russell. He never played their part in public life: as a man and a philosopher he was one of nature's exiles. Taken by his Spanish father at the age of eight from the mournful and austere town of Avila in Spain and set down among American relations in the intellectual Boston of 1872. Santayana became an American by his education at Harvard...
...gubernatorial candidate Christian Herter he described as a "wise, conservative gentleman and scholar. Dever is a plain front man for a bunch of thugs and robbers...