Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manifest right of any of these nations to take such decisions and actions, it is likewise our right, if our judgment so dictates, to dissent. We believe these actions to have been taken in error. For we do not accept the use of force as a wise or proper instrument for the settlement of international disputes...
...personnel in a Stevenson Administration are not very meaningful, particularly in view of the pollsters' predictions. But taken with an appreciation of the subtleties and objectives of the Stevenson program, they are a good indication of the man and the party that appear on the ballot today. For the wise selection of a President should involve an acceptance of the candidate's policies and his advisers, as well as an endorsement of his personality...
...Many a wise old political head was wagged in pity last September when Vice President Richard Nixon put Texas on his campaign itinerary. All the signs of local politics indicated that Texas would be a Republican wasteland-and Republican campaigning for Texas' 24 electoral votes a waste of precious time. At first the old heads seemed right; Nixon spoke m Houston's Music Hall to a crowd that filled fewer than two-thirds of the 4,000 seats. But the Vice President listened as he talked, looked as he was looked at, and recommended that the G.O.P. make...
...Harding's book the helpful Interpreter becomes the wise analyst. The all-too-literal Hell that Christian fears, she reads as psychosis. When, at the sight of the Cross, Christian is finally freed of his burden of sin, Dr. Harding explains that, actually, he "had found the right inner attitude." Giant Despair, who imprisons Christian in Doubting-Castle, and his sadistic wife, who urges him to torture and beat his prisoners, "represent the power of parents over against the weakness of the child." Christian's ultimate goal, Heaven, is revealed as merely the "wholeness of the psyche," presumably...
...Hunter said, "Children should be exposed to Scripture with extreme caution." The Apostle Paul, an inspired writer of Scripture, didn't agree with such advice. In his letter to Timothy he said: "From a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus...