Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is also ample evidence suggesting that many voters are wary of what might be termed the "welfare explosion" of state, federal, and local budgets in the last ten years -- and doubts about the wisdom of government spending are due largely to the inflation caused by the war in Vietnam. For the first time, the Aid to Dependent Children program is becoming a political issue, and a rallying cry for those in northern cities who feel compelled to cloak their casual bigotry with cries of "fiscal excess." Furthermore, the victory of Jim Johnson, a racist with Goldwaterite notions about...
...indicate the prickly enormity of the problem, Tahoe is administered not only by the two states (California and Nevada) whose border virtually bisects the lake, but also by five counties and 64 governmental agencies. Last week, as if all of Solomon's wives had for once displayed the wisdom of Solomon, these groups agreed on a simple solution that by 1970 will forever end the threat of pollution at Lake Tahoe. A mammoth disposal plant (6,000,000 gallons' capacity) will filter the waste to the acceptable standard for drinking water, and three export pipelines will be constructed...
...Need for Wisdom...
...aged laugh at the way things are. What are her pleasures apart from husband, children, work and friends? "I'm an insane furniture and bibelot buyer. I love the ocean-it's one of the last free places on earth." Betty Bacall has also learned the ultimate wisdom of the middle years, to live in the here and now: "There are things in life that are pretty rotten. The part that's good you've got to enjoy while you have...
...Wisdom & Panic. As Aristotle once pointed out, there are no boy philosophers. One of the philosophical satisfactions of middle age is not being young. The sign of health for the middle-ager is that he prefers his own age; he has no desire to go back to 20 because he knows what 20 is in a way that 20 does not. It is a difference in perspective: youth's is flat, middle-age's is three-dimensional. It is the difference between ignorance and wisdom, impulse and judgment. The young think there is no tomorrow; middle age knows...