Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, Moscow has been supplying military aid and training to pro-Soviet guerrillas, some of whom formed the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.). But some high officials in the Kremlin-and in Cuba as well-are growing increasingly skeptical about the wisdom of that commitment. The muted echoes of the debate that is now under way on the issue were picked up from Western intelligence and Soviet sources last week by TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter and Correspondent Strobe Talbott. Their report...
...limitations; after all, it is not a long way from affirmation and concern to naivete and sanctimony. Intellectuals in the legislative process are no longer self-conscious idealogues--they have begun to understand (the 60s and all that) the uses of non-ideology and the beauty of natural wisdom. They are somewhat more patient today than before with the frustrations of the average voter and have some understanding of how those frustrations must be dealt with if any goals are to be achieved...
Abboud now has the opportunity to apply such wisdom on a grand scale. Last week, after a superachieving career in U.S. banking, Abboud, 46, took over as chairman and chief executive of First Chicago Corp., parent of the First National Bank of Chicago, the nation's ninth largest bank (assets: $18.2 billion). If confronted today by a borrower in the same situation as his father, Abboud would make the loan that the Boston banker turned down. Abboud feels that banks have forgotten character and loaned money to "too many high rollers...
...part from the datedness of musical comedy conventions themselves is the roughness of transitions between comic and serious moments. An index of Cadiff's failure to effect these transitions is the laughter with which the audience greets the opening of "Ohio"--the sisters' supposedly poignant questioning of their wisdom in leaving home...
Barnaby, who is to squash what John Wooden was to college basketball, must have kept his words of wisdom to himself, or else Arnold just wasn't listening. If playing smooth, accurate squash is what it takes to get into Law school, then Kaplan can go buy his Black's Law Dictionary today. Arnold, on the other hand, better start looking at some good business schools...