Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last February, while chairing the Senate, Rockefeller had angered conservatives by refusing to recognize Allen during debate of a rule change to limit filibustering (TIME, March 17). In the love fest that followed Rockefeller's apology, conservatives in both parties rose to extol the Vice President for his wisdom and generosity...
...Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Viet Nam . . . Come home with the coonskin on the wall." That was our President as he moved us deeper and deeper into Viet Nam. Lyndon Johnson, out of Texas legend, could not conceive of courage and wisdom as anything but a victory of force...
...like your Essay. The area of the world in which the U.S. should be "prepared to commit itself seems to have shrunk drastically in the past 14 years. Is this because "the world changed," or is it because our wisdom and resolve have also shrunk? At this rate, maybe in another 14 years a TIME Essay will give a new list of "top priorities": Washington, D.C., New York City, Cape Cod, Miami Beach. I preferred Kennedy's inaugural pledge...
...arrival of the orphans did stir emotion, but many question the wisdom of any wholesale removal of children from their own culture. The Bangor Daily News suggests bringing 56,000 Vietnamese orphans to the U.S.-one for every American who died there...
...Kissinger continues to have the ear-and the respect-of the President, who recently called him "a person of unbelievable wisdom." Kissinger, in fact, is more comfortable with Ford than he was with Nixon, who delighted in occasionally deflating his foreign policy adviser. Ford is straight-arrow all the way. When he finds Kissinger expendable, the Secretary will be the first to know. For the moment, the President does not blame him for the debacle in Viet Nam or the setback in the Middle East. A top aide says that Ford still believes Kissinger has "an inner sense of strategy...