Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state of Communist computer technology has been the focus of an important, largely behind-the-scenes debate in Washington over the wisdom of selling late-model machines to the U.S.S.R. Because advanced computers are essential to the development of modern weaponry, the U.S. and its NATO allies have long prohibited their export to a potential enemy. Now the Administration has reaffirmed that decision by blocking the sale to the Soviets of an advanced $13 million computer called the Cyber...
...which bridged the gap between art and science, won him a wide audience outside the scholarly world. Although reconciled to the fact that "there is but one way into the future: the technological way," Eiseley's lyric musings harkened back to humanity's primal origins and the wisdom in fairy tales. Man's "basic and oldest characteristic," he wrote, is "that he is a creature of memory, a bridge into the future, a time binder. Without this recognition of continuity, love and understanding between the generations becomes impossible...
...chiefly distinguished by what it does not do. It does not revel in too many lurid scenes of zany inmates being violent or bestial (though it has its share, enough to earn it an R rating). It does not idealize the mental institution as a citadel of scientific wisdom and compassion, nor caricature it as a latter-day Bedlam administered by sadists. It does not explain away its protagonist's schizophrenia with some unearthed childhood trauma, as if the condition were a sort of Freudian acrostic to be solved...
...winner in the geopolitics of the Nobel Prize. Yet he gave a prize greater than any he might have received: his challenging, intricate fiction, which miraculously demonstrates that art is not a mirror held up to na ture, but rather a prism that refracts blinding reality into rainbows of wisdom and feeling...
...what it was last year. The peanut plants, normally large and verdant, the size of trash-can tops with diminutive yellow flowers nestled in their leaves, are Frisbee size, no more than 12 in. wide, and wilting. As for Dawson's usually rich crop of corn, folk wisdom has it that the stalks should be "as high as an elephant's eye by the Fourth of July," but now they are only three or four feet tall and not likely to grow much higher. Says Bobby Locke, head of the agricultural commission of the Dawson Chamber of Commerce...