Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colleague, Tomio Kubo, chairman of Mitsubishi Motors Corp., which builds two small-car models for Chrysler, pays lacocca a compliment. Says he: "In the person of Mr. lacocca we have developed a sense of security about the corporation and its future." He explains that lacocca "shows signs of Oriental wisdom." Perhaps Mitsubishi's boss has noticed that in rebuilding Chrysler, lacocca has turned from American role models and is looking to the Japanese. While he has tried to appropriate the expensive, high-gloss image of European automobiles for his more modest creations, lacocca has borrowed heavily | from the successful management...
...characters have the believable warmth and humanity that mark most of L 'Engle's creations. Many are familiar from earlier book's though they have aged and intermarried oddly. They come by their wisdom and perspective honestly, especially Katherine, for whom L 'Engle's has concocted a truly harrowing life. But though each individual character and plot turn are vivid and arresting, the layers upon layers of personal interaction and tormented memory manage only to form a staggering, nearly shapeless mass. L 'Engle writes with care, even virtuosity, and she occasionally attains moments of manage only to form a staggering...
...complexity. She hardly knows what to think when her old friend, Felix, unexpectedly tells her the spent years cruising the gave bars Greenwich Village or when a young tenant comes running to her for advice on husband's infidelity and so her support is limited to words of undeniable wisdom but limited fictional effect...
SUCH POCKETS OF BANALITY are of course, the small price L 'Engle's pays for attempting the supremely difficult task of writing about wisdom. If one theme emerges from the vast range of her topics and styles, it is the author's basic sense of sanity-an innate balance and perspective on the floppy subject she takes...
...sanity transforms wild adventures from planet to planet, from era to era, or across the continental U.S. into graceful journeys towards adulthood and understanding. In Katherine Vigneras' world the characters suffer the distractions of war out accidents castration, and absence phone calls, but amid the confusion children grow in wisdom: understanding parents discuss the family's harmony and the best solace: and people of all ages are relaxed and inspired by classical music...