Word: wisdoms
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...which is a fancy way of saying that Levine manages to say a lot about the role of ethnic groups in politics, especially at a time when the conventional melting-pot wisdom has it that ethnic differences are growing ever less important as a political force. Indeed, it's tempting to compare Levine to Frank Skeffington, the endearingly roguish Irish political boss who cheerfully dominates everyone around him in Edwin O'Connor's classic The Last Hurrah. On the surface, it works. Like Skeffington, Levine has an acute awareness of his culture, and uses it to full advantage--although...
Your cover story was concise and excellent. Your concluding words, "The touch of the divine, bringing tantalizing possibilities, may once again make foolish the wisdom of the world," were literary gems in a meaningful summary. Man will always be involved in the affairs of God, but room must always be left for God to be involved in the affairs...
...sons entered the trade a few years back, there were so many pressmen and so few jobs that it would have taken two decades to make journeyman. "There was very little future for them with all the newspaper closings, so I gave them a few words of wisdom," he said on the picket line last week. "They...
...Important issues demand comment, and it is not in a newsman's nature to remain silent; it is therefore this newspaper's obligation, as any other's, to analyze and criticize the news that we report. We do not expect to be treated as the font of all wisdom, just as we do not treat anyone we cover as particularly omniscient. We certainly do not expect to serve as the mouthpiece of any individual group, other than ourselves; we are students with varying perspectives, not professional ideologues. And what we print is hardly the vice of all the students...
...Romans have a word for it: papabili - the "possible Popes." In other times and other conclaves, they were at most a handful of men who, because of their holiness or wisdom or political savvy - or some fortuitous combination of such qualities - were deemed worthy of election as Pope. The conclave to choose a successor to Pope Paul VI, however, will be like no other before it. The number of Cardinal-electors, for one thing, is far greater than in any previous conclave, nearly twice the number who voted in 1963 in Pope Paul's election. With that increase...