Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade. It is not just simply that as a child Coppola was knocked out by a glimpse of the Tucker Torpedo at an auto show in the late '40s. It is rather that he too is a merchant of slightly skewed dreams, a tilter at his industry's conventional wisdom and a man who is himself a typical American genius, half visionary, half humbug...
...type, "is not a comforting figure," observes Robert Funk, founder of the Jesus Seminar and former administrator of the Society of Biblical Literature. "He's a troublemaker." Marcus Borg of Oregon State University concurs that this "subversive sage" was, like Socrates, out "to undermine the safe assumptions of conventional wisdom." That he chose to break bread with the lepers and outcasts of his day was a remarkable rejection of established Jewish mores, says Borg. Such scholars perceive a worldly revolutionary at work in the man who insisted, "The last will be first...
SOME time ago, it became part of the conventional wisdom to suggest that the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson would make an ideal Drug Czar. It is a position which has never existed in the past, and the responsibilities of the Czar are necessarily vague...
During his speech, the former adviser refutedwhat he called "conventional political wisdom inthe United States" that Cuba "can't continue tochart a domestic course in opposition to theSoviet Union...
...Democrats come to Atlanta convinced -- after 20 years in the wilderness -- that they have finally achieved wisdom through suffering. Unlike earlier defeats, there was something particularly chastening about 1984. Walter Mondale was the candidate of the party establishment who was nominated at a well-choreographed convention -- and still he lost 49 states. "Nineteen eighty-four was a massive shock of realism," recalls Texas Democratic Chairman Bob Slagle. "The party discovered that people didn't like Democrats anymore; they thought we were just single-issue people." The lesson was unmistakable: any party that has not carried a single state larger than...