Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once there was a man who wore a rose on his lapel, but kept his heart off his sleeve. He was a wise man and the disciple of a wise man who was dead. Both were from a nation half-way around the world and were between two worlds. The first man raised the conqueror's thumb from his nation and stopped war there. The second wise man said he desired to stop war throughout the world...
...time of the second man a meeting place of nations was founded by other wise men who desired an end to war. One day the head council of this group learned that the nation of the two wise men had tried to obtain a piece of propert which belonged to no one but was ruled by a prince and claimed by a nation near that of the wise men had tried to obtain a piece of property this small principality and declared that its citizens should decide which of the two neighboring countries the small nation would join. For nine...
Then the nations of the world wiped the dust from their eyes and saw the wise man as he was. The wise man was no longer a Moral Authority at all, but being a wise man he was aware that his former position did not pay nearly as well as the one he had now gained. He still wore a rose on his lapel, but his heart was not in the right place. It shifted continually...
...another year comes to another end, we are tempted, as an outgoing board on our final filing, to cull up all of our wise editorials (and conveniently forget about the others) and piece them together to show you what we have been talking about for a year. If we surrendered to this temptation, we would probably say something about the need for imagination (and realism) in foreign policy, boldness (and gradualism) in domestic policy, and House-ification (and money) in University policy. But that would be dull to write, and certainly worse than dull to read. Either you have seen...
...another year comes to another end, we are tempted, as an outgoing board on our final fling, to cull up all of our wise editorials (and conveniently forget about the others) and piece them together to show you what we have been talking about for a year. If we surrendered to this temptation, we would probably say something about the need for imagination (and realism) in foreign policy, boldness (and gradualism) in domestic policy, and House-ification (and money) in University policy. But that would be dull to write, and certainly worse than dull to read. Either you have seen...