Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press. Though the column will retire with him, readers need not despair. Griffith promises to deliver occasional essays to our doorstep, a form at which he has excelled, and he is already hard at work on a book that deals with inequality in America. Any parting words of wisdom after a dozen years as TIME media watcher? "Oh," says Griff, characteristically, "I don't think that...
...Popular wisdom holds that virtuosity on any instrument is a hard-won proposition, the product of years of painstaking study and practice. Despite the evidence of such performers as the pathbreaking American Maud Powell around the turn of the century or the brilliant Vienna-born Erica Morini, now 84 and in retirement, it also holds that the violin is properly a male preserve. But with age comes maturity, not mastery, and instruments are no respecters of gender. Although still young, today's crop of women violinists can already be judged on accomplishment rather than promise...
Harvard's defense is generally regarded as the team's strong suit. But, as common wisdom has it, the best defense is a good offense. And for 24 minutes yesterday, Harvard's offense failed to score...
...true fan really believes, on the eve of Opening Day, that all teams are equal. The magic of an Opening Day lies not in innocence but in wisdom; Adam and Eve would have been lousy baseball fans...
...hand, were Jackson to be the Democratic party's nominee, conventional wisdom holds that he would be a sure loser in the general election. Even to George Bush...