Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RESEARCHERS who sunk billions of dollars in hopes of producing energy by nuclear fusion must be kicking themselves. Until recently, conventional wisdom in the physics world had it that the only way to feasibly derive energy from a controlled fusion reaction was to subject hydrogen nuclei to extreme pressures and temperatures of millions of degrees...
...possibility of a hardliner backlash notwithstanding, one can see that the Soviets have been the short-run losers of the Cold War. In a war of economic attrition they could not keep pace with the rival U.S. and they are now reconsidering the wisdom of continuing their post-war policies...
...Founding Fathers, in their wisdom -- and more pointedly, their experience -- distrusted standing armies. They associated British ones with tyranny and lacked the money and manpower to create their own. Without a citizens' militia, the Revolution would have failed. Does the Constitution let you have the second half of the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms, without the first part, the intended use of those arms in the exercises and, when necessary, the campaigns of a citizens' militia to which the gun owner belongs -- as in Switzerland today? That is still very much a subject for legal debate...
...most sensitive question is how to portray Jesus Christ. Some tribes show him with a huge head to symbolize great wisdom or a massive chest to convey strength. But should he be depicted as an African? Urban Christians are more open to this than believers in the bush. Commissioned by the Catholic Cathedral in Kananga, Zaire, Enkobo Mpane created his first Bantu Christ from ebony in 1969. Parishioners rejected the work, so it hangs in a nearby convent. "Our parishioners still think of Christ as a Jew and not an African," reports Arley Brown, a U.S. Baptist teaching in Kinshasa...
...explains to her daughter that she lacks the necessary wood in her character. "You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you . . . But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak." The daughter does not ignore this old- country wisdom, "but I also learned how to let her words blow through...