Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still in many respects the strongest parliament in the world." Said he: "Its inadequacy is relative to the complex needs and stresses and opportunities of our society in the 1970s. The underlying question is whether at the highest level of national government we still see a place for collective wisdom drawn from the judgments and insights of many people-even as many as 535 people-as well as for the centralized, individual decision making, which is also essential in our system...
...proliferation of drug abuse, crime in the streets, lack of respect for authority, racism-all these were conveniently stenciled "made in Viet Nam." The war's impact, goes the conventional wisdom, went against the American grain and splintered the country into discrete and angry factions. The bombing of Orientals was a symptom of the ethnocentricism implicit in American history. The great father figures of the presidency were shown to be aloof and unresponsive to their children. Parents, policemen, establishmentarians-all figures of authority-were correspondingly devalued. Moneys were diverted from welfare projects to military hardware, and in response, minorities...
Bargain. The President himself pursued a course of wisdom by staying out of sight until Friday night. Then he joined Pat and the rest of the family for a round of concert hopping, ending at the Kennedy Center, where the Philadelphia Orchestra played the 75/2 Overture, sans cannon...
...Harvard and Radcliffe graduates who failed to join the staff of Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily, but, despite the poverty of their background, went on to win Pulitzers. Walter Lippman '10, the dean of American journalism who won a special Pulitzer Prize Citation in 1958 "for the wisdom, perception, and high sense of responsibility with which he has commented for many years on national and international affairs," was cut from The Crimson when he couldn't keep up with the rigors of the competition. James Agee '32, who took the Pulitzer for Fiction in 1958 (A Death...
...definitely against University policy to keep a man on in a temporary position longer than six or eight years. The wisdom of this policy may be open to question. But it is certainly fairer to give the man two years in which to better his position elsewhere. The Economics Department, which has charge of promotions has twice passed over these two instructors and promoted others, because it felt that, while Sweezy and Walsh were concededly popular and excellent teachers, they were likely, on the basis of their record of scholarship to remain stationary in their academic standing. Whether the Administration...