Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were many Alwyns, and probably none of us knew all of them. Alwyn the critic could sift a ton of aesthetic sludge and produce a column and a half of buoyant wit, pleasure and wisdom. It is stultifying to honor a man with lists, but it would be remiss not to mention his TIME review of Nabokov's Lolita, a model of incisiveness and insight; a brief and scintillating piece on Henry Miller that tells all anyone will ever need to know about that writer; and a short story called Something for Bradshaw's Tombstone, which prefigures...
...weapons as a sign of weakness. But the U.S. could counter such an impression by using part of the savings from a nuclear cutback to increase the efficiency of its conventional forces. In fact, a sensible adjustment of the U.S. nuclear arsenal might help restore faith abroad in the wisdom of American actions while putting the onus on the Soviets to scale down their own nuclear storehouse...
...Wisdom Coleman, once principal of a high school in Greenwood, Miss., lacked even an office at the school to which he was reassigned. He was a "hall monitor." James Noah, who was head coach at all-black C. M. Washington High School in Thibodaux, La., had 16 years of successful football behind him when he was "integrated"-transferred to a formerly all-white high school and made assistant coach on the "B" team. White officials explain that there are simply not enough comparable jobs to go around, and invariably find the whites better qualified. One favorite ploy is to assign...
...Attorney General Mitchell wants $1 billion in 1972. Many of the first grants, dispensed through jerry-built state agencies, strayed to low-crime suburbs instead of cities. Nonetheless, the money is being spent with increasing wisdom, and it cannot fail to improve a criminal-justice system that still gets only $6.5 billion a year?barely two-thirds of 1% of the G.N.P. Local taxes for fighting crime will have to go up too. Between 1902 and 1962, the share of local budgets spent for police protection actually dropped from 4.5% to 3.5%; it now stands again at 4.5%. Aside from...
...remain at loose ends, and it manufactures corrugated conclusions where there should remain the gnawing anxieties of ambiguity. And what can Let It Be possibly have to do with Waiting for Godot? The voice of that song is, at the very least, peaceful, and McCartney's crystal words of wisdom are light years from Beckett's terrifying existential despair. Godot isn't about the brotherhood of man; it's about the spirtual death of mankind...