Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Never in history," he said, "has there been such a need for men and women of wisdom and courage-wisdom to absorb the knowledge of the past and plan its application to the present and future, and courage to make the hard decisions." Thus a university cannot be a mere "vending machine, dispensing facts and figures." Its goal must be "the production of wisdom...
...take McLuhan on. Writing in the current issue of Television Quarterly, CBS Public Information Vice President Charles Steinberg, a Ph.D. specializing in communications, called McLuhanism "an amalgam of camp and voodoo," "semantic nonsense," and an "alienation of humanism." And besides, he added, it flies in the face of "conventional wisdom...
Steinberg, who does not pretend to speak for CBS management, never defines precisely what he means by conventional wisdom. Still, the effect of his argument can be seen in the CBS program lineup. Like NBC and ABC, Steinberg's network devotes a lot of time to news, public affairs and respectable, "cultural" programs (Death of a Salesman, the Young People's Concerts series). But CBS's regular programming emphasizes situation comedy and old-wave adventure; the Lucy Show, Comer Pyle and Gunsmoke, all more or less tell "linear" stories. The NBC and ABC standard schedules could...
...rugged little frontier farmer who tilled his fields from dawn to dusk and helped make America safe for democracy holds a fond place in most of our hearts. As America grew bigger and richer, the story continues, so did the farms, and the farmers. It is today's conventional wisdom that farmers wear gray flannel overalls and take care of their farms with three or four gleaming machines...
...twilight of his long and laudable career, Bernard Baruch was invariably characterized as an adviser to Presidents or a park-bench philosopher who doled out wisdom from a seat in Central Park or Lafayette Square. Admirers tended to forget-Baruch never did-that in the forenoon of that career, he had also been one of Wall Street's craftiest speculators. Baruch could be bearish or bullish. He once sold Amalgamated Copper short and realized $700,000 when Amalgamated reduced a dividend, causing its overpriced stock to tumble. Another time, alerted by a newspaperman that Commodore Schley had beaten...