Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aspects of "hegemony." This mysterious reasoning apparently persuaded Vance, and at a meeting between the two men, he went along with Brzezinski's view. Said one senior Carter aide: "The Chinese got 'hegemony,' we got 'domination.' The compromise was an example of traditional Chinese wisdom." Added a White House official: "We have no problem with the word 'hegemony' even if it does upset Moscow." At the State Department, however, senior diplomats remained dismayed by the pugnacious gesture, which was not discussed in advance with the department's top Soviet experts...
...still have to persuade Congress of the wisdom of the president's proposals," Pimentel said. He called the research allocations "a long-range investment in the future of the country at a time when the government is tightening its belt...
...evening is an amiable mixture of songs, dances and wisecracks seasoned with the rueful wisdom of age. Maxine Sullivan, whom one must not refrain from calling ageless, stops the clock and the show with a briskly resilient number called A Little Starch Left. An October-October romance between a carpenter (Peter Walker) and a woman (Sylvia Davis) whose husband is hospitalized and dying supplies the musical's bittersweet plot line. At show's end the pair sashay out of the Golden Days to share their sunset years, and on leaving the theater you may find your own step...
ARMED FORCES began life under the name "Emotional Fascism." The old title is a perfect epithet for Elvis Costello's obsessions, but he had to bow to the commercial wisdom that would advise against that title. Costello hasn't completely given up on womankind, but his misogyny makes way for the paranoia here, and the music reflects the change. It's less straightforward, a bit less dynamic, and relies heavily on the work of studio whiz Nick Lowe...
...Miller. Imagine-well, what's the point? There really isn't any way to anticipate the special charms of Get Out Your Handkerchiefs. This rhapsodic French comedy about men, women and sex is an honest-to-God original with its own challenging brands of humor, style and wisdom. It is the first revolutionary film to come out of France since the decline of the New Wave in the late...