Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...test of implacable wills. A man pits himself against a god, a no-win situation. Man's hubris is crushingly rebuked by the divine imponderable, necessity. The tension is not in the contest but in the axiomatic revelation uttered by the chorus of the bacchantes: "Knowledge is not wisdom...
Conventional political wisdom has it that an overseas crisis strengthens an incumbent, at least in the short run-the "rally-round-the-flag effect." If Carter is reelected, says Dartmouth Government Professor Larry Radway, he should "invite the Iraqis to sit in a grandstand seat at his Inaugural parade." Whether the Iraqis and the Iranians will be that cooperative remains to be seen. Foreign affairs has not been Carter's long suit, and it is possible that the gulf war has come too soon-and its consequences, once the scare passes, might prove too messy-to be of much...
...PAGES OF TEXT, Washington lawyer Jeremy Rifkin wants to crush conventional wisdom, rip away the illusions veiling our perceptions of the world, and revolutionize our daily lives. He feels he has hit upon one of those great ideas that change our very existence, powerful in its simplicity and attractive in its incisiveness. In fact, he is so confident that the second law of thermodynamics--the law of entropy--governs our being that his attempt to put forth a new world view assumes the form of a preachy polemic. Whether or not we want to believe in an "entropic" perspective...
...last recipient of the IOP's transition primer is no longer eligible for such help. If reelected, Jimmy Carter--whom Moore says the committee "is in no way counting out of the race"--will have to spend the winter between his two terms without the wisdom of Harvard. Four years ago, however, Carter did possess a bound volume embossed with the IOP seal--and his move to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave was still far from smooth. Many have cited the early feuding between Hamilton Jordan's Hatfields, who planned the Carter election, and the McCoys under Jack Watson, who handled...
...McLuhanesque terms, for television. Says he: "There is a certain gladiatorial aspect to such an affair, but I shall not come clanking onto the stage in armor that evening. I would hope that I could come equipped with a certain amount of discretion, humor, wisdom, and avoid what some people say is a tendency on my part to preach and sermonize...