Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...programmed and made to perform like Pavlovian dogs and then condemned for what we do at someone else's whim and fancy? If so, we can only choose to balk, question and refuse to obey whenever we perceive the slightest lack of confidence or doubt in the wisdom of those rightfully ordained to be our superiors...
...headquarters in Egypt and Syria seemed too good to be true: light Israeli resistance at the Suez Canal and in the Golan Heights; Israeli reserves not mobilized; Israel's general population relaxed and praying in the synagogues. Yet the reports were accurate. The Arabs had accomplished what conventional wisdom had long insisted was nearly impossible - a surprise attack on Israel...
Week Since. In the week since the attack, Israelis have been arguing among themselves about the wisdom of not attacking first. The Jerusalem Post, not ordinarily a critic of the Meir Cabinet, editorialized: "If Israel decided against a pre-emptive attack, giving the Egyptians and Syrians the combat initiative, this is not an exercise that the nation will want to repeat for many years...
...Watergate Committee was lured, not by a White House ploy but by his own ego, into buffoonery." The trivial incident merely involves Ervin being snookered by show-biz types into making à commercial recording of his-favorite quotations and anecdotes à la the late Senator Everett Dirksen. Whatever the wisdom of Ervin's performance, it hardly seems to rate the breathless treatment New Times gives...
Totally neglected has been the possibility that the next vice president may succeed an impeached Richard Nixon within a year. Ford has not shown that he could bring to the presidency the wisdom or the moral courage that the current administration has so tragically lacked...