Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...liberal, Santayana must inevitably be an ambiguous figure. I honor his naturalism, his devotion to the life of reason, his imaginative humanism. As a literary psychologist, he is exciting and profound. As a philosophical critic of literature and life on a dozen levels, he is penetrating and often wise...
After meeting the sailors, the club will play M.I.T. twice and will travel to Princeton along with the football team. The Crimson beat Tech on several occasions last season and expects to do like-wise this year. The Tigers, however, will give the varsity a tough match...
Harvard's anthropologists are about to release a new, scholarly survey dealing with the people of Ireland--and if they are as wise as they are scholarly, they had better mind their manners. Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, who is given to saying brash things in prose and poetry at times, admits that he is approaching this one with plenty of soft answers in mind...
...Wise Man's Testimony...
...remembers the testimony of a certain wise man who had come to live among us after the Theresienstadt concentration camp, the venerable and heroic scholar Leo S. Baeck, onetime Chief Rabbi of Berlin. A score or so of American intellectuals-novelists, historians, poets, political writers-had gathered to listen to him; and after some talk of Goethe and Nietzsche and Mann, one voiced the question in all minds: "Can what happened in Germany happen here...