Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jade, said Confucius, is a virtuous gem: its warmth and luster typify charity, its translucence signifies sincerity, its sturdiness bespeaks courage, and it mirrors intelligence and wisdom. For centuries, the Chinese cherished jade; Emperors decreed their exclusive right to it. Now others have caught the fever: travelers, especially the Japanese and Americans, scour the jade markets in Hong Kong, Asia's jade capital, for items ranging from simple stones or carvings that sell for $20 to exquisite rings that can cost $120,000. Hong Kong's jade traffic increased sharply in 1977, with sales reaching into hundreds...
Harvard's Houghton Library houses an extensive collection of Wolfe's papers, the gift of New Orleans businessman William B. Wisdom, and has "thousands of Wolfe's letters," Rodney J. Dennis, curator of manuscripts in the Harvard libraries, said yesterday...
...contributed a military balance which foreclosed a military solution. Our nation, because it was trusted by both sides, helped shape a negotiating process which culminated in the breakthrough of Sadat's historic journey. President Carter has handled the sequence of events growing out of the Sadat initiative with wisdom and delicacy, offering assistance but not intruding on the process of negotiations...
Otherwise Engaged. With biting wit and wisdom, Playwright Simon Gray has various characters invade the privacy of a man who wants to be left alone...
...Government to constrain careless or inexperienced power. "Arthur is a great politician," adds Conable. "He is a master of the pregnant pause. He knows when to clean his pipe. He can answer the most complicated questions with 'I doubt it,' and the world is thunderstruck with his wisdom. When he comes to testify before any committee, the whole committee shows up. He has the same effect on the members that Henry Kissinger had. He seems to be right...