Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans, plus 315 local employees. But at a time when the fortress-like U.S. embassy compound in Tehran remains in the hands of Iranian militants, and the American missions in Islamabad and Tripoli are still scarred from last year's assaults, many staffers in Cairo question the wisdom of constructing an opulent symbol that could easily turn into a lightning rod for anti-American protests. Top aides to Ambassador Alfred Atherton argue that the building would represent a "blatant political statement," and some have already dubbed the proposed compound Tehran...
...identifies with one or more of his characters. In Star Wars there was a lot of Lucas in Luke, the wide-eyed farmboy who was always yearning for bigger things. In The Empire Yoda is his alter ego. Yoda's speeches might almost be called The Wit and Wisdom of George Lucas. Like Yoda, Lucas is a devout believer in the Force. Says Lucas: "When you are born, you have an energy field around you. You could call it an aura. An archaic description would be a halo. It is an idea that has gone all the way through...
...Lean Years, subtitled Politics in the Age of Scarcity, sketches the powerful hierarchies supporting the production and distribution of five world resources: oil, energy, minerals, food, and water. Barnet finds that "the illusion of scarcity creates power," and that "the market operates almost totally on illusion. It was folk wisdom that the crisis was exaggerated, that the doubling of gasoline prices was making the companies rich, that the companies were in league with the sheiks against the consumer--and it was all true." But--he stresses--there is still a real oil crisis that Americans will not face, which...
...Maitreya Foundation did not conceive the idea of the Hierarchy. The Theophical Society, founded in 1875 as one of the first groups to look to the East for spiritual wisdom, also understands things this way. Located down the block from some Boston University dorms and the Ramakrishna Vedanat Society, which entered the U.S. at the time of the 1893 World Parliament of Religion in Chicago, the Theosophical Society has a broader age range than most similar groups and encourages members to remain in their own religion. The society's three objectives, displayed for all on a poster hung...
Helen Petrovna Blavatsky, Russian psychic, was the force behind Theosophy's establishment. "For years and years the ancient wisdom was preserved in the mystery schools, mainly through esoteric teachings and Eastern wisdom," Aloyse Hume, a member of the Boston group since the late 1960s, explains. "Blavatsky in her travels spent seven years in a Tibetan monetary and she was asked to go out and head up this experiment and make available this information." Evidently satisfied with the early progress of the "experiment," the Hierarchy continued to transmit the ancient wisdom, according to Theosophy...