Word: sage
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students were part of a group of about 70 students and 30 striking workers who gathered in front of Yale's Pierson-Sage Power Plant in a second attempt to block a fuel oil delivery...
...Linowitz?a new Panama Canal treaty. Explains Bunker: "I don't think there is any age limitation on a person's usefulness. It depends entirely on the individual." At 71, Averell Harriman negotiated the atomic test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union. At 85, he continues to offer sage counsel to the less experienced Carter Administration...
Jimmy Carter's Bible rests on his desk in the Oval Office with a mark to the verse from Micah used in his Inaugural Address, in which the Hebrew sage admonishes the Lord's people "to do justly, and to love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God." These days, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance also keeps a Bible close by in his seventh-floor State Department office-next to a book that discusses Israeli borders and a map of the Middle East...
Luckily, though, some do. Roger Kahn, a Brooklyn-born sage weaned on decades of Dodger glory, spent the better part of his youth trying, in his own words, "to equate the game in terms of Americana." The result was a fat passel of pseudo-sociological articles that would have warmed the heart of Vance Packard. Only they didn't work. Slowly, Kahn admits, he realized that baseball was one interesting part of American life, but hardly a mystic expression of its inner meaning. Like all fun and games, baseball is best suited to anecdotes, not weighty moralizing, to light yarns...
...More sage criticism focuses on three main points...