Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marriage he shows came from a social base where everything worked against it, and the new lives of the reawakened partners seem no more fulfilling. But if Marianne and Johan have even a slightly better idea of what went wrong, they may pass on that little bit of wisdom--speeding the apocalyptic day when love won't conquer anyone but will make peace with all, in an age of sense and reason and sexual equality. But it's not even clear that the pair has gone anywhere at all. Any real hope we find in this film comes from ourselves...
...THEIR WISDOM by C.P.SNOW 345 pages. Scribners...
Past privilege, present crisis: here is the theme of In Their Wisdom. The dwindling heritage of the British Empire seems to be symbolized by the legacy of ?400,000 (more or less), perversely left by a crotchety octogenarian to the ne'er-do-well son of his nurse-secretary-companion Julian Underwood. The dead man's daughter, Jenny Rastall, contests the will. Like a La Ronde involving money instead of sex, Snow's plot circles in an ever widening spiral until the whole of '70s English society seems ensnarled in the litigation...
Like the characters of In Their Wisdom, circling their pot of gold, Snow still twitches with what he calls the "tic of hope." He concludes with a phrase that a dozen years ago would have brought cries of "Banal old fogy!" from all the Angry Young Men. "The worst doesn't always happen," he writes. Today, in a world that will settle for less, the words mean more-even ring with a certain Colonel Blimp gallantry. How Snow readers have changed! How Snow has stayed the same! ·Melvin Maddocks
...likely, however, that nations are ready to start disarming. Even if they did, politicians would soon find their constituents clamoring that almost all the money saved on weapons be spent at home rather than abroad to help poor nations feed themselves. American Consumer Advocate Esther Peterson already questions the wisdom of providing food for hungry countries when the U.S. cost of living continues to climb. Of course, the oil-possessing nations could give and lend much more, but so far they have shared little of their new wealth with the poor, the weak and the hungry...