Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lysenko attributed the latest success of Soviet genetics to "Stalinist teaching on gradual, concealed, unnoticeable, quantitative changes that result in quick, qualitative, basic changes." He added: "Comrade Stalin is the embodiment of folk wisdom . . . He is the happiness of all the toilers of the world. Glory and long years of life and health to the leader and great teacher of the toilers, the coryphaeus* of science: Comrade Stalin...
When students go inter-Housing in the evening, they have most likely forgotten the morning wisdom of their instructors. But at lunchtime, when they have just quit classes, they may remember some small parts of the lectures. They may even want to discuss them. Unless the classmates live in the same house, their aim is frustrated; there is no inter-House at lunch...
...acutely at times from deckchair gabble and shipboard sameness. Yet it is very often - particularly during an act spent ashore - both effervescent and funny. It boasts such small ingenuities as having Clutterbuck never utter a word; such larger achievements as making Mrs. Clutterbuck a fine blend of sappiness and wisdom. The show is the better, too, for good ensemble acting and-in Norris Houghton-a director who knows that with any soufflé it is timing that counts most...
...suppressing irresponsible undergraduate polling has raised larger issues of the growing responsibilities of social science. Infant branches of learning, before they reach maturity, are sometimes given to extravagant claims and methods in an effort to win a place in the sun of public recognition. Only age brings tentative wisdom to eager disciples of new faiths...
...which drill and discipline are taboo, and teachers have become abnormally afraid of boring pupils or straining their abilities. In worrying about such matters, they have long belittled what they call "verbal intelligence" and "bookishness," forgetting that "by far the greater part of man's wisdom is stored up in books...