Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which seniors were not permitted to vote, found, in Goerge Plimpton, a frivolous, jet-setting member of America's social elite. That Plimpton belongs to the Porcellian--a club that has never admitted a black, let alone a woman--indicates how many seniors will feel comfortable with Plimpton's wisdom on Class Day. We hope that in the future the Class Marshalls will act with greater awareness of their role as representatives of the entire senior class...
...great length of the concert also shows the band's faithfulness to their tradition. Common wisdom has it that they cater to the four- or five-hour peak of an acid trip, and so they did at Springfield. The size and anxiety of the crowd indicated an equally enormous amount of commitment and planning. Thousands stood in line in the rain as early as five o'clock, and many were showing the signs of a "heightened awareness" by then. The gentleman to my left, for example, who had shaved half his head and tied what was left of his hair...
...consequences of breaching what he calls nature's "evolutionary barrier" between different kinds of creatures-the genetic incompatibility that in most cases prevents one species from breeding with another. In the same vein, retired Columbia Biochemist Erwin Chargaff asks: "Have we the right to counteract, irreversibly, the evolutionary wisdom of millions of years in order to satisfy the ambition and the curiosity of a few scientists...
...principal director of the Del Webb Foundation. "What is good for the estate is not necessarily good for the public company," argues the pugnacious Greenspun. "What is good for the foundation is not necessarily good for the estate. [Johnson] has to serve all three masters with a certain wisdom, which he doesn't have...
...Virginia Law Professor A.E. Dick Howard. "They knew their best chance was to federalize everything, to get to the U.S. Supreme Court as fast as they could." Says Oregon Associate Justice Hans A. Linde, disapprovingly: "A generation of Americans was brought up to believe that all law and all wisdom come from these nine men in a marble temple." Even some liberal state court judges appreciated the trend, preferring that federal judges, appointed for life, take the heat for sometimes unpopular decisions advancing minority rights...