Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the weekend, Americans were treated to a radically different political style in the person of Robert Kennedy. Whether by design or not, Kennedy suggests youth as opposed to wisdom, bashfulness as opposed to frankness. He worries a lot about his hair and counts his teeth as a clear asset. Like his older brother, he is attracted to a vague kind of fancy rhetoric, consisting chiefly of parallelisms (often redundant) and alliteration (often meaningless). This means he is attracted to a speechwriter named Ted Sorensen, who apparently drafted Kennedy's kick-off speech Saturday and who cab boast some...
...staff, revolted at the tough regimen and Tussman's rigid concept of a meaningful curriculum. Demanding the right to shape courses to their own interests, some students pleaded for an emphasis on Eastern rather than Western culture. Tussman acidly answered that a student cannot "pick up the wisdom of a foreign culture if he doesn't understand his own." Many of the students took to introspection with drugs, turned up in class turned on-which infuriated Tussman, who feared his project could be killed by a police raid...
Clearly, what brought audiences back to the Bijou time and again was not the thrill of solving the mystery before Chan did but the homely wisdom of the sub-gumshoe, a man who always had an axiom to grind. With articles and conjunctions thrown to the wind, Charlie's observations usually made up in specific gravity what they lacked in grammar...
...those who catch the Ibis in one of his lighter moods, the wisdom seems mixed with an inexplicable friendliness and concern for human kind. Youngsters go away starry-eyed and often remake their lives in light of his calm, softly spoken words. And oldsters can be hyponotized as well...
...often seemed a political anachronism, preaching the same blend of straight talk and good-will that was his banner headline as a youth. But if his message still comes over loud and clear, it is because he has stayed in tune with the youth of today, and because his wisdom and eloquence transcend the tradewinds of political fortune...