Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement stressed that the Overseers, as representatives of the public, cannot "subordinate or waive their legal powers and duties in deference to academic custom, however wise and beneficent such custom may be as the result of experience and long tradition developed under lay control...
...practical man, Diogène seeks an ally in God ("His reach is long, and besides, it's never wise to get the Church down on one"). But God does not seem to help much. In the eyes of his friends, Diogène is a marked man. Accepted witnesses see him "in the guise of a werewolf," flapping wings like a giant bat, as a huge hog with seven lighted candles on his head...
...World War II days-Leon Henderson, Paul Porter, Chester Bowles-and conferred earnestly with them for two days. He patched together some suggestions and sent them to Wilson. They were not enough. With a flick of his wrist, Mobilizer Wilson got Valentine fired and installed in his place Washington-wise Eric Johnston, $125,000-a-year boss of Hollywood's Hays office and ex-president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see below). Before Johnston even got his feet planted under a bureaucratic desk, a freeze of prices and wages and a partial rollback of prices were...
...Balance of Spirit is in a sense the most important task. For a man, no matter how weak or poor or ignorant, will be exceedingly strong and rich and wise if only he has an idea for which he can die and therefore for which he can live. Communism provides such an idea. The Communists have a purpose in life beyond their immediate cares and worries. The non-Communist world does not have such a sense of mission. There is, therefore, so far an unequal spiritual struggle between it and the Communist world. So long as this is the case...
...Irish mother and by his father's job as a wholesale grocer's salesman. Years later he wrote to Novelist John O'Hara: "I am half black Irish and half old American stock with the usual exaggerated ancestral pretensions . . . Being born in that atmosphere of crack, wise crack and countercrack I developed a two cylinder inferiority complex ... I spent my youth in alternately crawling in front of the kitchen maids and insulting the great...