Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berkeley's Schorske might be described in the words of Gibran in The Prophet: "The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind...
...kind of immunity to criticism; though he scarcely enjoys it, it rankles less than it used to and he has come to recognize adverse comment as a natural affliction of his office. Harry Truman, he notes, was a constant target of the critics, yet is now remembered for his wise decisions rather than for the deep freezers accepted by Military Aide Harry Vaughan...
...make the Alliance for Progress more than a one-way street for American aid, its 20 members appointed a panel of nine Latin American economists to study the best manner of achieving mutual interdependent development. Trouble was that the "nine wise men" lacked any real power; so a more influential Inter-American Committee (CIAP) was created. Last March in Buenos Aires, the Alliance voted to trim the nine wise men to five, and put them under CIAP as a technical committee. Last week the whole nine-man panel resigned, firing broadsides at the Alliance as they went...
...such aid ostensibly frees a nation's own resources for development projects, it may, in the end, develop nothing more than big, private bank accounts. Washington experts flatly denied such policy shifts, writing off the charges as an attempt by the panel to salve its injured pride. "Nine wise men?" snapped one Washington hand. "Ridiculous. Call them nine wise guys...
...feel that it would be a good idea for Phillips Brooks House or some other interested group to develop a positive alternative solution. Although most of the kids who congregate in the square do not live there, we think it would be wise to set up some kind of inexpensive recreational facilities in or near the square in recognition of the magnetism the extra exerts. Perhaps it could be a meeting place that sold inexpensive refreshments and provided free entertainment by talented people from the University: folk singers, rock and roll groups, dramatists, etc. Jane Page '68 Megan Greene...