Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is partly true. The liberal tradition has reached its heights in Harvard's structure. There are restraints and guidelines--some justifiable, some not--but the men who administrate the structure are wise enough to keep the pressure valves sufficiently open so that the pot never quite boils over. If one learns how to operate successfully, one can get by doing just about all he wants...
...whole new vision. "The day I got back," she remembered, "I walked down to the Yard and sat on the steps of Widener. It was the first warm day in such a long time. There was a boy sitting near me dressed in corduroys. He had a wise old face and the kind of arm you knew--well, you knew could cradle the head of a beloved as well as fill out income tax forms. We started talking...
...TIME is wise to attribute "all-purpose bore" as descriptive of Galbraith to an intangible some. It is not likely to have come from anyone who has heard or read the man. To one who disagrees with him, Galbraith may seem platitudinous, or wrong, or oppressively clever, but not, in the interest of fact, a bore...
...threat comes out: "Hellfire and brimstone upon every son of a gun who works for the wrong, whether he's a 'superior' white or a Negro." Romans 1:25 excoriates those "who changed the truth of God into a lie"; this becomes, in Jordanese, "These wise guys swapped God's truth for an outright lie." 1 Thessalonians 4:3 states: "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication." Jordan puts it: "God's will-that which makes you different-is that you hold back from catting around...
...Stirrups. Indian painters in Cuzco showed Christ's bleeding heart pierced by Indian arrows, and the Three Wise Men journeying to Bethlehem on llama-back. In gold-encrusted paintings from the Frank Barrows Freyer Collection, recently exhibited at the Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, Christ is depicted on the Cross with native Peruvian flowers banked at his feet, while the Child Virgin is portrayed holding a distaff, vividly recalling Mama Oclla, the Inca deity who, according to legend, taught the Indians how to spin...