Word: unwisdom
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...girls in the graduating class of the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., listened with solemn commencement faces as Dwight Eisenhower, 76, spoke to them of the glories of education and the unwisdom of picking a political leader "by his beauty or by his shock of hair." All of a sudden the girls began giggling and looking nervously at their knee-length skirts. The former President, basing his remarks on the fact that "I have been looking at good-looking girls since I was six," sounded off with some unexpected and decidedly unpolitical opinions about ladies' fashions. "Ankles...
...Johnson Administration had no realistic expectations of overcoming this year ingrained congressional opposition to a major bill that appears to aid Communism. It had hoped that at least hearings would be held, so that in a year or two even Wilbur Mills might realize the unwisdom of forever saying nyet to the likes of Nicolae, and vice versa...
...that Pentagon officials have uncovered Walter Lippmann's unwisdom on the 1947-49 Greek crisis-"My God, Walter would have given away Greece too!" [May 14]-they would do well to pursue their researches further back, to the days before Pearl Harbor, and in a more immediately relevant area, Asia. They would discover that Mr. Lippmann consistently opposed American aid to China in its life-and-death defense against Japanese aggression, insisted that the United States' vital interests were confined to the Atlantic, and warned that, under no circumstances should this country allow itself to become embroiled...
...point is typified by a remark in one of the earlier essays: "I agree entirely with Bertrand that intellectually Pythagoras was one of the most important men that ever lived, both when he was wise and when he was unwise.'" We're by now with the notion that and unwisdom generate scientific progress. But it is one thing to say that one scientist's mistakes send another in the right direction, and quite another that unwisdom in a wayward scientist presents no contradiction to his greatness. The English mathematician G. H. Hardy said the first of Ramanujan, the Indian genius...
...wrote Justice Stewart, and reasonable grounds for trying to find out whether they were members of the Communist propaganda apparatus. The court carefully avoided any blanket endorsement of committee investigations (noted Stewart in a rare aside: "These opinions do not imply any personal views as to the wisdom or unwisdom of the creation or continuance of the committee"), but it rejected the argument that Wilkinson and Braden were being persecuted merely for attacking the committee. Nor did their attacks make them immune from questioning as Communist suspects. "We can find nothing to indicate that it was the intent of Congress...