Word: proverbes
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...Fiddler on the Roof, based on his Tevye stories, has drowned his oeuvre in a chorus of If I Were a Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset. The World of Sholom Aleichem attempts to whisper where Fiddler bellowed, to reclaim the writer from the ripoffs. But, as the Yiddish proverb has it, you can't pull two hides off one ox. The musical used Aleichem to carry the tunes; the material is now too depleted to carry an evening...
...during January the nation listened to the litany of Franklin Roosevelt's greatness. One theme in the lesson was FD.R.'s desire for results even at the expense of philosophical purity. He quoted an old Bulgarian proverb that says, "You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge...
Chinese culture has long been pitched heavily against divorce. An ancient proverb tells newlyweds: "You're married until your hair turns white." In practice, however, divorce, while almost impossible for women to initiate, has traditionally been easy for men. All the husband had to do was send an emissary to his father-in-law to declare that he "cannot worship at the ancestral shrine with your daughter any longer." The father-in-law usually acquiesced, with apologies for not having brought his daughter up properly...
...always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much." 20th century proverb...
Supply-side economics had the common-sense appeal of an old proverb, but nothing guaranteed it would work. Too much American dream, and not enough Studs Terkel, its ideal viewpoint pictured the sort of workplace the country could be, without the realities progress to that state would encounter. The numbers never did add up, and that's what made David Stockman so important. His mission as director of the Office of Management and Budget was to convince an incredulous public and Congress that the numbers would add up even if it didn't look that way. His responsibility clear from...