Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy offensive is all new, and it brought a growl from Moscow, as well as a bitter response from American businessmen, disgusted at their new role as Ping Pong balls in East-West diplomacy. It also highlighted the longstanding sharp differences of opinion within the Administration over the wisdom of using trade to pressure or punish the Communists...
...fact, wholly inadequate when it comes to the climactic last scene. Her attempt to do a Juliet number falls very, very flat-it is better, perhaps, to think of her brighter moments in the earlier acts, as she gives an engaging rendition of youth and wisdom, innocence and ethereal presence...
...bright side of the orthodox wisdom is that growth will resume, moderately, in the second half of next year and the economy will not suffer a credit crunch but only a squeeze late this year and early next. In the New York financial community, the betting is that interest rates will go up a bit more, but not much; that Miller will get the money supply under control; that loan demand will fall as the economy slows; that Government borrowing will be heavy, but enough money will be left to meet the reduced borrowing demands of most?...
...dispersed. Yet they live. Several times Aaron toys with the notion that time is a book in which the dead exist on pages sim ply not legible to the living. Singer's books reverse this concept: they are time, lovingly preserved and animated by laughter and wisdom...
...State Department, which blessedly goes on from President to President, crisis to crisis, they reached back for some wisdom attributed to Henry Clay, a Secretary of State himself, and a man who knew something about leadership: "I cannot at this juncture clearly foretell the outcome, but I counsel you to cultivate calmness of mind and prepare for the worst...