Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Behavior experts have begun to question the long-accepted wisdom that no alcoholic can learn to drink in moderation. In fact, a few recent experiments have indicated that some alcoholics might learn to become social drinkers (TIME, March 15, 1971). Now further evidence comes from the Alcoholism Research Unit in Baltimore City Hospitals. There, according to a report in Behaviour Research and Therapy, alcoholics who were promised a reward for moderation were able to stop after five drinks or fewer...
...visionary powers." According to the Roszak bill of particulars, Christianity bears a heavy share of the blame. It excluded other myths in the name of one myth. It tended to abstract God into the Word: the pulpit crowded out the altar. Protestantism especially stripped man of "the inarticulate wisdom of the instincts," preparing the way for the Scientific Revolution...
...G.O.P. messengers were immediately ordered to retrieve the scripts. The BBC people refused to yield theirs. "Extraordinary," commented Charles Wheeler, BBC'S chief American correspondent, as he examined the document. "How do you Americans say it? Really a screw-up." Republican Committee Staffer Kit Wisdom tried to grab the pages from Wheeler, then from Christopher Drake, a radio correspondent. "Naughty, naughty," Drake admonished her, clutching the document to his narrow chest. "Naughty, naughty, naughty." Half an hour later, Wheeler beamed his message to Europe: "Here is the script for today, complete with pauses for cheers and applause. The nomination...
...always, Auden reveals sentiment only after a display of armed irony, often recognizing how little the wisdom of the past may be able to say to the present. In the good old simple-minded days, he admits, "good meant Giles the shoemaker/ taking care of the village ninny" while evil was "Count ffoulkes who in his tall donjon/ indulged in sinister eccentricities...
...mainly Hanley recalls a world on the wane with the grace and occasional wisdom of a man who has lived fully enough to have few regrets. At 56, he is a youngish old Africa hand. He left his native Ireland when he was 18 for life on a Kenya farm. As an officer in the British army during World War II, he helped round up Mussolini's homesick legions in northeast Africa. A more difficult job was keeping the Somali nomads from each other's throats...