Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they were not. The people are not to be instructed or led. They are to be trusted. Their wisdom is always greater than the wisdom of governments...
...same people... the same Mao... It's an anti-individualistic society but we admire it... I suggest we face a contradiction. We can admire a people living on a not admirable basis, but achieving something, and not admire ourselves... The recognition of this reality is the beginning of wisdom." Watergate must have dulled many critical faculties for unabashed admiration for China exuded from the participants...
Ervin, of course, is the wise old sage of the hearings. Like a visiting uncle, he dispenses his pearls of wisdom with droll humor and biblical quotations. But it is when he gets angry that Ervin is at his best, Ervin, like none of the others, can bear down on a witness, cutting directly to the heart of the testimony and making clear the full implications of that testimony. His dogged emphasis on the Constitution and the ways in which it has been abused by a particular witness puts the matter in its proper, sweeping perspective...
Whatever else Watergate critics say about President Nixon, they have usually been willing to concede his mastery in foreign relations. But these days Europeans are beginning to doubt Nixon's wisdom even in foreign affairs-at least in Europe. While Nixon and Henry Kissinger still call for a bold New Atlantic Charter, a host of anxieties about America's intentions plague Europeans...
...Cried Wolf. Edward G. Robinson's superb performance as a 70-year-old man who witnesses his friend's murder makes an otherwise lackluster plot and script better than bearable. The commentary concerning old age and septuagenarian wisdom is heavy-handed, but the tour-deforce by Robinson is worth the watching. Channel...