Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is in one sense his quest for humanity, Nicky is aided by two good examples--his father and his best friend Bruce, neither of whom are very prominent in the book. The father is full of quiet, sensible advice that bespeaks of an inner wisdom. As for Bruce, after his funeral, his unpopular next door neighbor speaks to his mother: He was always real nice to me, talking to me and listening to me when you don't think he had to. You know how a lot of people sort of like him thought I was just some kind...
Still, Jimmy the Greek Snyder suggested odds of 5 to 2 on Riggs. Eleanor Tennant, one of Riggs' first coaches, predicted that her protégé would win easily. Like almost everyone else, she was taken in by the conventional wisdom that an adequate male player should be able to beat a first-class woman. Almost everyone was wrong...
...year old Sam Ervin, whose Watergate hearings are a parable of the times. One by one, bright young men who had gone astray filed before the aged patriarch to do penance and seek absolution. Nor was Ervin averse to providing them with a few homilies on conduct. "Ervin embodies wisdom, and he demonstrates that he knows how to cut it," says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer. Teenagers have blossomed out in Sam Ervin T shirts, and Rolling Stone has put his jowly face on the cover...
...uniform, badge and nameplate were mysteriously stolen from a parked car. Three and a half hours later, the official car of Police Superintendent Clarence Giarrusso was itself stolen. Though both the thefts were eventually believed to be minor and unrelated crimes, they seemed at the time to confirm the wisdom of the Secret Service's caution, which had been inspired by the two quite disparate, earlier supposed threats...
...facilities and innate attitudinal bias of a male oriented community, striving and pushing the nose of its program into a male-oriented and dominated sport, gathering and cherishing every scrap and morsel of attention, keeping logs and impossible hours, answering each derogation with a confidence foreshadowing with a wisdom and clairvoyance a perception far beyond its maturity, thrusting itself into the midst of its sport and claiming the only championship in crew that the Harvard community could muster. Radciffe crew outsone, outrowed, outpromoted the rest of the women's competition in the country, encroaching not only onto the Harvard crews...