Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many Americans accept "zero population growth" as a new canon of conventional wisdom that it comes as a surprise to hear the notion disputed. Some blacks, in fact, are so proud of the high black birth rate that they attack Z.P.G. as a white scheme to curb black power. Now comes a more surprising attack, this one from Jewish intellectuals, most of whom had endorsed birth control as a sane way to ease world hunger and poverty...
...Osborne view had changed as little as the book title. He writes: "Mr. Nixon, with his shifts from the stately style and sound content of his formal messages to his reckless rhetoric on the campaign stump, seems to me to make anything approaching a sustained belief in his wisdom, his compassion, his courage, his good faith impossible...
...this, and Summer of '42 seems to have been the model. It has gauzy, soft-focus photography and saccharin rhapsodies on the sound track. The writing is appropriately wretched and includes such Deathless Words to Live By as "Life is made up of small comings and goings." This wisdom was provided by Herman Raucher, co-scenarist of Anthony Newley's Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe, etc., who now has apparently forsaken fake Fellini for pseudo Salinger. Give him one thing, though, he's the equal of Erich Segal - in art, if not in commerce...
...Those Midshipmen are tenacious tennis players. Winning points today is going to be like pulling wisdom teeth," Barnaby said...
Still, as Kalb and Abel also demonstrate, the war that no President wanted might have been averted. There were moments in all the post-World War II Administrations when some official wisdom might have saved Lyndon Johnson -not to mention the U.S. and Vietnamese peoples-from the results of the decision to intervene with combat divisions...