Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leave Washington: "Scenes of former glory sort of thing. I don't want to be a fixture." That, of course, is exactly what Alice Roosevelt Longworth became for much of this century. When Oklahoma is admitted to statehood, Roosevelt rails that the new citizens have "in their infinite Western wisdom sent us a blind boy for one Senator." The Senator in question is Thomas Gore, Vidal's maternal grandfather...
...nearly 40 years, standard military wisdom in the West has held that Warsaw Pact armies so outnumber and outgun NATO that only nuclear arms could redress the balance. This conventional forces "gap" has legitimized NATO's reliance on nuclear weapons, which in turn has allowed the alliance to hold down its spending on nonnuclear forces. Now, however, with NATO's nuclear inventory likely to shrink, fears are surfacing that decades of nuclear dependence may have left the alliance with insufficient conventional clout to keep the peace...
...original creator of the Ann Landers column," according to Sun-Times Publisher Robert Page. Crowley's law practice has given her "a lot of experience in solving problems for people," she notes. "I've done divorces. I've done adoptions . . ." Her column, called "Your Problems," is expected to dispense wisdom in the traditional vein, while Zaslow's "All That Zazz" will be, in his own words, more "off-the-wall." Says the soon-to-be married bachelor: "Some days I might just give unsolicited advice to the famous." Once a reporter, always a reporter...
...Kenneth too has a grievance. The woman with whom he had a daughter refused to marry him and moved to Seattle, where she now consorts with a burly ski instructor. "Keen to get to the bottom of things," as always, Kenneth ransacks his store of accumulated wisdom in an attempt to explain how he and his uncle have both wound up "knee-deep in the garbage of 'personal life...
...some lawmakers say that even if Harvard alums have entered, grown in wisdom and left to better serve the people of Massachusetts, the University itself does not always live up to the ideals it preaches...