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Word: wisdoms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reach even further out, discovering Far Eastern religions, sensitivity training workshops or holistic body maintenance. There is an emphasis on shops or holistic body maintenance. There is an emphasis on self-fulfillment that spawned what Tom Wolfe called "the Me Decade." Says Sex Counselor Nora La Corte: "Respecting the wisdom of the body leads to responsible hedonism and nurturance of the whole person by recharging one's energy for self-healing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: But Where Is What I Started For? | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...ceremony involved humbling me to all living things. The fire, the smoke, the peyote, are all seen as means of putting the body and the prayer out into the elements. The purpose of this ceremony was to call upon the forces of nature to give me strength and wisdom to come back...

Author: By Jennifer H. Arlen, | Title: from bows and arrows to lawsuits | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

...four part ceremony that uses the earth, the sky, the water, and a member of your family. The purpose of the ceremony is to put you in balance with nature so that in coming back to school your humility and respect for all living existance is heightened and therefore wisdom is more likely to be accorded to you. It was very difficult to find this guy because he lived in one of the temporary camps near the Navajo Generating Station. We had to drive almost clear up to the generating station and through the boom town affiliated with...

Author: By Jennifer H. Arlen, | Title: from bows and arrows to lawsuits | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

Sylvester Stallone has become Hollywood's self-appointed poet of the simple-minded. He speaks Brooklynese, and diamonds of wisdom in the form of dese, dems and dats stream out of Cosmo, Stallone's character in Paradise Alley ("Nature's a funny thing"). Directed and written by Stallone (he even bellows the theme song), Paradise Alley invites comparisons with Rocky...

Author: By Max Gould, | Title: Paradise Lost | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...circumstance that one happens to be an excellent wrestler. Stallone's Cosmo is an aspiring hustler who let his hair grow and donned an earring to avoid the draft. He is supposed to be an eccentric, funny, loveable guy, with a kind heart and an abundance of home-spun wisdom. Stallone, however, fails to give his character any depth. Cosmo is an amalgamation of what Stallone thinks are appealing traits, calculated to gain our sympathy. He does not seem real. Looking into Cosmo's eyes, one only sees emptiness. His jokes are not even funny...

Author: By Max Gould, | Title: Paradise Lost | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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