Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gathering is quite like a congress of a ruling Communist Party. To Communists it represents the highest embodiment of their party's ideological and political wisdom. Like a legislature, it enacts statutes and elects the members of the ruling Central Committee and the powerful Politburo. Like an American political convention, it adopts what amounts to a platform listing the party's tasks and priorities. Like a revival meeting, it gives the local leaders who attend as delegates renewed enthusiasm and regenerated faith...
...King of the Hill, and St. George and the Godfather, Mailer has continued to attack large public figures and topical issues. And the books, no matter what their worth, meet with an increasing critical impatience for him to move on. The mind which could declare that "God, in his wisdom, made me a fool" could show us so much about ourselves through an investigation of himself, with unrelenting honesty no matter how humiliating the incident. That mind became earmarked with certain refusals to be incorporated into the rational--Mailer's themes began to appear with clarity: man is primitive...
...crippling the President of the U.S., you cripple the U.S., yourselves and myself. This reflects poorly on your wisdom...
...years a critic of Nixonian hatchet politics, White has grown increasingly sympathetic to the now quieter Nixon style. Proudly and yet often painfully aware that he was "essentially alone" in everything he did, White writes, Nixon developed a remarkable "fatalism of outlook and a personal melancholy which added wisdom to his reflections...
...puritanism from the American mind. Says Harvard Research Psychiatrist Robert Coles, whose mother read Menninger's The Human Mind to him as a child: "Karl Menninger has an earthy sense of what is happening to people. In his work there is an encounter between American intuitive psychological wisdom and the European spirit of psychoanalysis, which he made part of the training of a whole generation of psychiatrists." Adds Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson: "In his books [Man Against Himself, Love Against Hate, The Vital Balance], Menninger translates Freud into American literature. He has not been a popularizer in the cheap sense...