Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shall continue to pay my dues to the American Civil Liberties Union and hope that more professors will see that civil liberties are wed to social justice as wisdom is wed to compassion...
...Sullivan, as city manager he is always in the precarious position of being able to be fired at the whim of the majority of the council but he has shown a wisdom and desire for cutting costs and trying to bring back blue-collar industry to Cambridge...
...That's only fair," I replied. "Students don't care about people any more, either." That piece of inebriated wisdom has haunted me for the last month or so; it has a lot of convincing evidence on its side...
Nicholas is the definitive antihero; he is also the definitive cliché. No wonder Fabre's life is a rubble of rejection slips. Unfortunately, the people who made Love at the Top have not demonstrated the same critical wisdom as Fabré's prospective publishers. They are swept away by the power of such insights as material success corrupts; bedfellows make strange politics; and cash calms many qualms. Director Michel Deville (Benjamin) preaches his simplistic, satiric sermon with the help of a number of attractive women (Romy Schneider, Florinda Bolkan, Miss Birkin), who lend the movie a certain...
...interesting for what they imply as for what they say outright. For example, the reasons most frequently given for inviting congressmen to the Institute of Politics are educational--to let students get a look at their elected representatives, and to let the elected representatives learn about the accumulated wisdom of American scholarship. In Daly's memo, though, congressional seminars are listed in the paragraph on how to "increase our participation in development of appropriate policies and legislation"--lobbying. Schmidt's memo cuts even deeper, straight to the weaknesses inherent in an electoral government. "I have always found," he remarks...