Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much of Kendall's work is a social history of an age when a woman's intellectual capacity was not highly regarded. So few women were prepared for college that there were years when Vassar granted only one or two diplomas. Newspapers argued the wisdom of ignoring "great natural laws" and overstimulating female nervous systems by "examinations, exhibitions and prizes." At Smith as late as the 1890s no men were allowed at dances ("from the gallery it looks like a butterfly ball," wrote an observer) and at Mt. Holyoke male guests at promenades were given printed cards with...
...legend was of his own making. That distinction separates him from more helpless heroes of the early 20th century, like Charles Lindbergh. He was acutely sensitive to the uses and inflections of propaganda. "We must also arrange the minds of the enemy," Lawrence wrote in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, "so far as we could reach them; then those other minds of the nation supporting us behind the firing line, since more than half the battle passed there in the back; then the minds of the enemy nation waiting the verdict; and of the neutrals looking on; circle beyond circle...
...only. The majority opinion, written by Justice William J. Brennan, asserted that if the court merely awarded a job to an applicant who was initially discriminated against, he "will never obtain his rightful place in the hierarchy of seniority." In a dissenting opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger questioned the wisdom of courts granting seniority to some workers at the expense of others. Wrote Burger: "I cannot join in judicial approval of 'robbing Peter to pay Paul...
Skeptics pointed out the conventional wisdom: no American political film has made money since Mr. Smith Goes to Washington almost four decades ago. There must have been some temptation to use that appealing film as a model, turning Woodward and Bernstein into updated Jimmy Stewarts?naive, idealistic, full of puff about democratic ideals...
...liberal Harvard Law School audience that he was against gun control. "I know I'm going to lose some of you on that one, but that's where I am." Then he added, "I don't claim total courage; I don't claim total wisdom." The hall exploded with applause...