Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue will not be settled by last week's resolution or by a dozen like it, and the debate promises to continue long after peace comes in Viet Nam. As a result of Viet Nam, many in Congress are distrustful of any President's wisdom and determined to deny him even the military means, let alone the authority, to intervene unilaterally. One thing is certain: Richard Nixon will be watched more closely by Congress than have been any of his predecessors of the past few decades...
Many of them are slightly wary of Pompidou. Though he is a longtime party member, he lacks the Resistance credentials and almost mystical faith in the General's wisdom that mark true Gaullists. During the campaign, he made an open bid to gain a measure of independence from his party. In an effort to enlist the support of non-Gaullist parties, Pompidou promised to make what he called "openings" in domestic and foreign policy. The Gaullists fear that those openings might erode their power. Some of them are worried that Pompidou might bring too many outsiders into his Cabinet...
...policy of "get tough" is a winner's game either. Still, if the tactical lessons of Munich seem less and less simple to apply, its moral implications are not. The tragic events of history, so often in retrospect accepted as inevitable, were shaped by human will and wisdom-or the lack of them...
...they survive, and on what terms with love and life, is the heart of the book and the measure of Woiwode's worldly wisdom. He throws off bit characters-an Indian clerk in the general store, an old farmer down the road -with the sort of spendthrift brilliance that measures an abundant talent. He handles those woods with the care and exactness of a naturalist. In short, at 27, he is already a novelist one can trust. Past blitheness, but not up to bitterness, Woiwode treats life (and death) with unstinting tenderness. He knows the price of love...
...Bartlett saw it, the Cuban revolution was just a Caribbean comic strip drawn in that country's green and peasant land. Its luminaries, Che Guevara (Omar Sharif) and Fidel Castro (Jack Palance) are Batman and Robin in fatigues. Che formulates the plans with a marvelously worldly wisdom, Fidel dimly grins; all that is missing is a light bulb over his head. When Guevara decides to aim nuclear missiles at the U.S., Castro's concern belongs in a balloon: "Do you think the Soviets would go for it?" By the time Che pushes on to Bolivia and oblivion...