Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet trade, grain deals get all the attention, and are provoking a red-hot debate about the wisdom of allowing the U.S.S.R. untrammeled access to American food supplies (see THE NATION). But almost unnoticed amid the hullabaloo, another type of American-Soviet commerce has been expanding far more smoothly and consistently. In an effort to modernize and expand their inefficient economy, the Soviets are turning to the U.S. for machines and technology. As a result, American sales of nonagricultural goods to the Soviet Union are likely to top $550 million this year, v. $309 million in 1974 and only...
...Intriguing sense of revealed wisdom pervades Chen's conversation, partly a result of the peculiar use of language- Spoken with a heavy Chinese accent, his words usually hover on the border between the incomprehensible and the profoundly suggestive. But as with the sage-like Stein in Conrad's Lord Jim, the half finished phrases, the almost aphoristic quality of his sentences, lend a mysterious weight to all he says...
...experience in 1974 confirmed the conventional wisdom," he added, referring to the cheating case...
...sense it's unlikely that anyone has profited much from The Pedagogues since as far as I can tell nobody but me has checked it out of Widener in the last 75 years, and Summer School students seem still to be surviving without the benefit of the book's wisdom. It's also hard to convince anyone even now that Harvard is just a regular old place, though things may have gotten to a point where it's no longer anything to break engagements over. But it's a safe bet that the Summer School continues to affect people...
...woman who did more to affect Anglo-Irish history than any other 19th century female (Queen Victoria excepted) was born Katharine Wood, the daughter of an Anglican vicar. "Look lovely and keep your mouth shut," her brother advised her, voicing the wisdom of the age. At 22 she married a horsy, socially acceptable Irishman named Willie O'Shea, known chiefly for his velvet jackets and his passion for get-rich-quick schemes-sulfur mines in Spain, railroad lines in Zululand. Katharine settled down to the role of conformist motherhood. But one day in 1880, when...