Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee to pick up documents exchanged across the table and Senator McClellan's fancy doodlings. TV-savvy committee members often delayed proceedings by delivering politics-loaded orations geared to home-state audiences, but even this, wrote one viewer, "was better than soap opera." The committeemen were also TV-wise enough to save the top witnesses until last, sprang the taped phone conversations at precisely the proper dramatic moment, drowning out racy epithets with an electronic beeper signal. Said Schearer: "The Army-McCarthy hearings had its 'Point of Order' slogan. All we've been able to come...
...education in a free society, says Woodring, can be summed up in a phrase: "to prepare the individual to make wise decisions." All that is taught in the school-whether history or science, philosophy or mathematics-is a means to this...
...Sacred Laws. With such a definition; much of the trivia and confusion now rampant in the schools would be eliminated. Such skills as reading, for instance, are obviously indispensable in making wise decisions, but basket-weaving is something else again. "Social adjustment, in the sense of 'getting along with people,' or conformity, is not an educational aim. An education must include learning how to choose when it is best not to conform, and when one should differ." The fact, says Woodring, is that education must be primarily intellectual, for "all choice is intellectual...
...deft as to be intravenous. There is Lawyer Arthur Winner Sr., a dispassionate Victorian man of reason, his son's model and hero. An agnostic, he has been cut down in the fullness of life by cancer, and young Arthur learns his first sobering lesson-"How dies the wise man ... as the fool." With life's occasional flair for overemphasis, the lesson is repeated when Arthur's first wife, Hope, dies from the aftereffects of childbirth. Something else has died first-the youthful illusion that they had fallen in love with each other, when they had only...
...nature is, like a well, to the other like a bucket. The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical." Cozzens' wise men try never to get too big for their buckets...