Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither Mr. Powys nor his "Fables" are for the poor mortal who likes a good story, but who can not abide "literature." Like a medium, this clever writer makes such homely objects as a bucket and a rope scamper and talk worldly wisdom in a naive accent. And if you would find the love affairs of "The Seaweed and the Cuckoo-Clock" amusing and enlightening you will proclaim "Fables" an important piece of workmanship. There is no doubt that this little book is very much the thing for the right people...
...voicing a hope that not a few of those who have faithfully followed him from lecture to lecture this fall will join the old stowaway in welcoming the dawn of a new year in that fair isle of liberty which lies somewhere to the southeast. For with all the wisdom and foresight of three wise men the Vagabond is closing up his quarters in the Lowell House construction shack and leaving Cambridge for the festive season. All of which may go to prove that there is a Santa Claus...
...Baxter's carefully modulated article dealing with U. S. relations with the U. S. S. R. in Monday's CRIMSON would appear an unprejudiced scholarly treatment of a controversial subject, for the writer draws no conclusions--but closes with the pious wish that the U. S. will act with wisdom...
...neat a trick as daylight saving was announced last fortnight by smart Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha whose beetling brows and piercing eyes suggest the wisdom of a Mephisto...
...create 'an association of cooperation' on the basis of possibility of permanent production with the assistance of such distributing organizations as are willing to cooperate, and do not let us worry about those who will not do so." U. S. oilmen, pondering this last pearl of wisdom from the Shell, wondered how much of Sir Henri's U. S. activity was designed to strengthen his international position...