Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artistic management, led by Mikhail Baryshnikov, and the dancers. Fraser's prose may be gushy at times, and Arnold's photos are grainy, but both beat with life and explode with candor. The arias of shop talk, the revelation of fears and jealousies, as well as the wry wisdom and humor, are riveting and give the blithe impression of being uncut...
...undermined the value of all bonds that the food and tobacco company sold before the announcement. Not everyone was alarmed. Said Harry D'Angelo, a finance professor at the University of Michigan: "I don't see any major social dangers. The real challenges have been to the conventional wisdom that large numbers of shareholders provided the best means of financing industry...
According to the conventional wisdom, the clubs are sexist, racist and elitist institutions totally at odds with the progressive university community next door. They have wild, orgiastic parties at which, if they do not hire prostitutes, drunk co-eds are hauled upstairs for a quick screw by several members on the nearest convenient piece of furniture. "Clubbies," we are told, think of women as objects to be excluded from one's social and intellectual circles and dragged bodily into one's bedroom or pool hall. "Zealots In Protest" scream about the club's collective "closed doors and open zippers." Blacks...
...last way to lower the deficit. What's called for is a tax hike that would raise some money (I'll get specific in a minute) and that would lower interest rates by showing the financial markets we have the will to attack the deficit (but the wisdom not to shoot ourselves in the head by attacking it too hard). Lower interest rates would cut the deficit still further...
This was not a bold decision but a cautious one, based on the conventional wisdom that Jackson had been undermining all through the primaries. Before the 1988 campaign, Jackson was regularly discussed as a threat to the Democratic Party, one who would damage the nominee as he is supposed to have damaged Walter Mondale in 1984. Jackson is the most vivid symbol of those "special interests" (blacks, women, gays, teachers, unions) that were supposed to have trammeled the Democratic Party, making it their captive. (As Studs Terkel points out, the really powerful lobbies, for gun owners and doctors and corporations...