Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rozelle explained about the problem of selling deodorant and antifreeze ads on the tube for a hundred grand or so a half minute. "And you've got to find some cheerleaders with cute belly buttons," he said. "That takes time." Brezhnev said he could see the wisdom of that. They settled on a date three months later in the Superdome. "A superduper game for the Superdome," said Rozelle. "I like it, I like it," said Brezhnev...
...Cave. By offering academic credit for a course on the logic of a particular football strategy, taught by no less a scholar than the venerable Harvard quarterback himself, the House has announced to us that its intellectual leaders can see no essential difference between the pursuit of wisdom and the pursuit of trivia...
...related phenomena: (1) the clamoring over-subscription of famous "gut" courses: and (2) the top-heavy enlistment of "pre-professional" (read: "pre-wealth") tutors in the Houses, so as to dampen any remaining spark of misconception that the purpose of a university is to instill a love of wisdom rather than the trades of artisans...
Associate Editor Frederic Golden was a journalism student at Columbia University in 1955 when he heard of Albert Einstein's death. Though relativity baffled him, Golden knew instantly that science ? and civilization ? had lost a major hero. "Einstein was the symbol of learning generation," and explains wisdom for Golden, my who wrote this week's cover story on the new wave of interest in Einstein as followers celebrate the centennial of his birth. "He is the scientist of our age, but he is also remembered for his humanity, his personal style and his political and social thinking...
...last minute there were plenty of commercial spots for sale on Roots. ABC itself projected only a passable 28% to 31% share of the audience for the show; CBS and NBC concurred, scheduling only routine fare against it. Not for the first time, Television Row's conventional wisdom was completely wrong...