Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...range bombers first were built. No doubt the Americans had peace for the present but the United States could only regard the peace in the light of a truce, and . . . employ it in preparations for war . . . But when a war of annihilation is impending over a state, the more wise, more resolute and more devoted men always find themselves hampered by the indolent and cowardly mass of money worshippers, of the feeble, and of the thoughtless who wish merely . . . to live and die in peace, and to postpone at any price the final struggle. So there was in America...
...number to an unsuspecting friend. It made no difference to Dad Hall, or to the volunteer assistants who came to help him. Even the drunks listened. "A bar is a bar to heaven and a gate to hell," Hall would tell them, "and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." Homeless down & outers came to his mission for help; a light burned in the window all night. And the telephone kept ringing...
...live without inhabiting Myself-in such a wise that I Am dying that I do not die. This life I live in vital strength Is loss of life unless I win You: And thus to die I shall continue Until in You I live at length. Listen (my God!) my life is in You. This life I do not want, for I Am dying that...
...tight "party-line" system that has plagued it ever since. No man did more than Dizzy to din radical notions into Tory skulls, yet he could also say without a qualm that "the movement of the middle classes for the abolition of slavery was virtuous, but it was not wise...
...Martinique who has lived in France since 1927, writes with charm and is tactful enough to keep his fable short. What does it all mean? A satire on imperialism, perhaps, with Ti-Coyo symbolizing the native opportunist? Clement Richer, a nonpolitical fellow who describes himself as a misanthrope, is wise enough not to say; all that can be seen is his literary eye closing in a wink...