Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them with unbeatable military power. In his day and since, Mahan's doctrine has been criticized as imperialism. But Mahan's quiet point-applicable in the Middle East today -was that overwhelming U.S. power ought to be deployed not for ill ends of world conquest but for wise ends of deterring war and safeguarding peace in which all mankind could prosper. In any event, wrote Mahan in 1890, "Whether they will or no, Americans must now begin to look outward . . ." For a view of a naval commander with a 1958 outward look, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS-Restrained Power...
...memory of the late scholar and translator Monsignor Ronald Knox, for 13 years Oxford's wise, witty Roman Catholic chaplain, a group of old Oxonians, including Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, Novelist Evelyn Waugh and Philosopher-Critic C. S. Lewis, will set up a grant for Biblical or classical studies at the school longest associated with his name, Trinity College...
...think that inventory liquidation, still proceeding at a fantastic $7 billion annual clip, will level off rapidly, perhaps even reverse into a modest inventory accumulation. The uncertainties of international affairs will cause many a manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer to think twice before eating more deeply into his stocks. The wise businessmen will tend to keep inventories level, or increase them a bit as a hedge against possible emergency. Said a Cleveland machine tool manufacturer: "Our story to customers is that now is the time to buy before we get jammed." In the same way, businessmen look for industrial expansion...
...have only two reservations to make. In the middle of the play, the directors have Jack Bittner, portraying Time, rise out of the ground wearing a 1958 suit and carrying a wet umbrella over his head. They would be wise to do away at once with this altogether too jarring bit of costuming. In the penultimate scene, they make Hiram Sherman, as Paulina's steward, treat his lengthy account of off-stage doings as though he were supposed to be burlesquing the Messenger of ancient Greek drama. This is a questionable interpretation, although admittedly it does get plenty of laughs...
...what is health? Author O'Connor finds it readymade for him to put on in the wise words of Montaigne: "The grandeur of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly; its grandeur does not exercise in grandeur, but in mediocrity." If O'Connor had held to this maxim as stoutly in his prose (which is often sheer gibberish) as he has in taking the "road to conformity," Public Baby would have been easier to take as a memorial to an ill-spent life...