Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...achieve financial independence and for suggesting that given equal education and opportunity, females would be the professional equal of men. Horace Walpole called her a "philosophical serpent" and a "hyena in petticoats." Even her friends, the liberal though pious Dissenters, were shocked by her challenge to the ancient wisdom that considered women to be imperfect...
...Sicilian feather importer, Swaggi began his career at age twelve selling fake "Parker" pens. Soon Eighth-Grader Vincent was pulling in "seventy or eighty bucks a week ... twice as much as my teachers." Flushed with the thrill of "the score," he passed up high school to study the practical wisdom of hustlers like "Willie the Wop," "Cigar Face Joe" and "Abe the Louse." During the Depression, Swaggi boasts he saved $10,000 in one year. By age 23 he had hustled his way through more than a decade of crime in four cities under two aliases...
...example, only 25% of South Boston High's graduating students went on to college. That compared unfavorably with the record of the all-black Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Roxbury, which sent nearly half its graduates into higher education. Harvard Sociologist Thomas Pettigrew quotes local folk wisdom: "If you want to go to college, you don't go to South Boston High; and if you go to South Boston High, you don't want to go to college...
...edition of the 210 Grimm tales first printed in the U.S. in 1944 is full of wonders and murders, long-suffering younger sons who make it and bad giants who don't. It is a great buy in drops of blood, talking foxes, poisoned apples, unparalleled cruelty, earthy wisdom, dumbfounding stupidity and sheer excitement. Every literate household (with or without children) should...
...illustrate the news of the day, or even--as another aspiring journalist, Karl Marx, once suggested--undertaking a ruthless criticism of everything existing. But all these things involve an attempt to learn from and about the news of the day and to report on it--not an imparting of wisdom from Olympian heights to those mired in the news's reality. The inadequacy of Lippmann's call for making journalism one of the "liberal professions"--presumably a special estate with responsibilities and privileges all its own, instead of a group of workers doing a job like everyone else--suggests...