Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presence of the Secret Service, but did break out into loud laughter when host Samuel Huntington stated that the purpose of the lecture series was to promote international harmony and peace. Those questioners who were allowed to speak made rather timid objections, but one did manage to question the wisdom of supporting repressive dictatorships in opposing Communism. In his answer, Brzezinski exposed a crucial flaw in his theory: he stated that it does not really matter what happens to the people of Pakistan, as long as the structure of anti-Communist alliances is strong...
...Many of the residents of Boston's "silk-stocking suburbs" caught on to his campaign too late switch their registration to independent. And Anderson's organization is Johnny-come-lately compared to the corporate headquarters and pin-stripped staffers his Republican challengers command. Yet Anderson remains hopeful. "The conventional wisdom is that you can't mount a spontaneous political movement. We're going to challenge that," he says...
...Sunday's panel discussion of his economics, Professor Harberger offered an explanation for his involvement with the Chilean government which invites further reflection about the wisdom of offering him an appointment...
...Hampshire votes tomorrow, and half-a-hundred trends, meanings, insights and revelations will be gleaned from the wisdom that its 200,000 or so voters bestow. More than two candidates will claim victories, moral or otherwise, and at least one will call it quits. The primary, as is its wont, will mark a watershed in this campaign, separate wheat from chaff, get the ball rolling, shift the momentum, be the straw that broke the camel's back or prove the turning point. But no matter how it turns out, New Hampshire will be judged by the mythos which have surrounded...
...SIGNS OF IMMINENT TROUBLE for the current front-runner loom elsewhere. Carter campaigners are less than adept at poor-mouthing--reducing expectations so the results look good. Immediately after Iowa, political wisdom had it that Kennedy would be out of it if he didn't win both Maine and New Hampshire. yet his competitive defeat in the Maine caucus ended up as a moral victory, and now Carter is in the historically unenviable position of heading the pack into New Hampshire. Lyndon Johnson needed a big win here in 1968, Ed Muskie in 1972; Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern refused...