Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago priest-sociologist who is proud to be an Irishman and a friend of Mayor Daley's, has broadened the attack to the religious front. "Let us be clear at the beginning: this is a volume of dissent," he says in Unsecular Man. "It rejects most of the conventional wisdom about the contemporary religious situation." The conventional wisdom he rejects is the "pop-sociological-religious analysis which has become part of the American intellectual preconscious...
Greeley's case is not without its problems, but it is certainly a useful antidote to the popular wisdom he disdains. Moreover, despite Greeley's propensity to make (usually funny) jokes at the expense of the Left, he is willing to acknowledge the accuracy of radical criticism of the corporate ideal, which ideal encouraged the anti-religious spirit. In so doing, he eases communication between the Left and the advocates of Catholic ethnics. Given the unusually bitter feelings which characterize relations between the two groups, this in itself is an admirable contribution...
...what, Harry Truman would have asked, is wrong with the American tourist? He never pretended; better than most men, Truman knew himself. He possessed some hard inner kernel of conviction-partly moral, partly intellectual, partly folk wisdom -that was neither proud nor ashamed. It made him secure...
When he died, Harry Truman was under no illusion that he was a giant of intellect or even a "great" man. He was, as has been said, perhaps the greatest little man the U.S. has known. In a nation founded on the principle that ultimate wisdom lodges in its citizens, that is no mean accolade...
JOURNEY TO IXTLAN by Carlos Castaneda. The third and best book about the wisdom and magic of the Yaqui Indian Sorcerer Don Juan Matus...