Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard fall that followed. This new group differs considerably from the men who rose to power in the market in earlier times. Today's leaders are fairly young?many are in their 30s and 40s ?as well as politically iconoclastic and socially concerned. Skeptical of the conventional wisdom, they are questioning not only the mechanism of the market but the uses to which capital...
...necessary, to keep it from passing through his city. A Pentagon spokesman insists that the chances of "catastrophe" are virtually zero, yet the Army is quietly stockpiling quantities of a lifesaving antidote along the proposed route. The British Foreign Office (representing the government of the Bahamas) has questioned the wisdom of the plan...
...advice to his peers is of course that he is rediscovering the role that parents used to play in the pre-technological era?moral guidance. Today's stress on technical knowledge has undercut that role; yet knowledge is multiplying so fast that parents might well return to teaching wisdom rather than facts that soon become obsolete. Tom Winship, father of four and editor of the Boston Globe, believes that for the past ten years the nation's children have provided the "energy and courage" for most social progress: civil rights, campus reform, ecology, withdrawal from Viet Nam. But many have...
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...herself and others-especially men. From her essays, faithful readers know that Joan Didion herself came to New York right after college, when "nothing was irrevocable; everything was within reach." Her life was changed by a lengthy romance with a callous fellow who force-fed her on more cynical wisdom of the world. When she told him she never wanted to get to be like him, he replied: "Nobody wants to, but you will." It is a judgment against which Joan is still flailing out, and her anger keeps her on the brink of staring-into-the-void depressions...