Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idealists, who particularly idealize war; its elderly poets, who love celebrating young men's deaths; its common people, who are spoiling for a fight; its international lawyers, for whom a legalistic victory is well worth an international cataclysm. Finding Troy useless, Hector turns to Greece, to the worldly-wise Ulysses (played impeccably by Walter Fitzgerald). Though thinking wars unpreventable, Ulysses vows this time to prevent one. But a warmongering poet whom Hector angrily throttles cries out that Greek Ajax has throttled him; Ajax is mauled by Trojans; and Giraudoux's story passes over into Homer...
...Caesar and Cleopatra. Each man saw worlds about to overturn through a queen's lure; in Shaw's Caesar as in Giraudoux's Hector, the great warrior is the great hater of war; in Shaw's Caesar as in Giraudoux's Ulysses, the wise man sadly grasps the impotence of wisdom. And both plays are as autumnal in their ruefulness as they remain vernal in their...
Programs similar to general education have degenerated into mere surveys whose apparent purpose is to make their students "better readers of the New York Times." Murdock feels that a primary criterion at Harvard should continue to be that "every course fits people better than they would other wise be fitted to live in our free society." But not from a Five-Foot Shelf. "I hope what we offer," he smiles, "can't all be put on a shelf.PAUL H. BUCK...
...American would like to think that he has the confidence of his fellow Americans when he is trying to do a tough job. But, again, I say, this country . . . overshadows every individual and any individual in it." The Bases of Confidence. This is the statement of a man too wise and too humble to believe in his own indispensability. But it has another meaning: most of what President Eisenhower has contributed to international and national life does not depend for its endurance on his arteries...
...wise old baseball brain whirring with wonderful precision, clicking out strategy that outraged strategists, but guessing right so often it could hardly be called guessing...