Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aides was asked whether he thought the President was fully engaged in his work, he replied reassuringly and offered a bit of curious proof. A secretary, he recounted, had written a get-well poem ("Your excellent condition is a model for us all/ For it is strength and wisdom that has our nation standing tall") and sent it to Reagan. He sent back a hand- written note illustrated with a self portrait. "It shows he's up there ((in his living quarters)) doing things," the adviser claimed. "It shows that he's extremely responsive and willing to get down into...
...conventional wisdom, the two don't even overlap: Harvard is for the best and the brightest, 'Bama for the biggest and the brawniest. Cambridge has a Nobel prize-laden faculty, Tuscaloosa has the legacy of its great football coach, Paul "the Bear" Bryant...
...President seems to have maintained his resolve against firing any more of his aides. "Reagan is about as rigid as I've ever seen him," says a longtime ally outside the Administration. "He doesn't want to throw anyone overboard to satisfy Washington's considered wisdom. He thinks that he is being well served by his present staff." Chief of Staff Donald Regan apparently feels his job is once again secure. Several aides say the haunted, hunted demeanor that Regan displayed in the early days of the controversy receded after a Dec. 11 meeting with the President. Regan "hasn...
...late the world's most nerve-racking explosions have come from the Middle East, fueled by the 40-year-old antipathy of the Arab states toward Israel. Conventional wisdom holds that a third world war is most likely to begin in that region, but political touts say that Eastern Europe is the horse to watch. The Soviets simply do not have the resources to woo Latin American and African countries and at the same time keep their grip on Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and East Germany. Britain, whose imperial eye took in much of the world a hundred years...
...General Secretary, Nguyen Van Linh, is 71. A former Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) party secretary, he has been identified with economic reform. Whether he can bring prosperity to his country is another matter. Several veteran Viet Nam observers believe that Hanoi's new leaders remain divided on the wisdom of adopting capitalist measures. Nor do these experts believe that the New Guard will alter the country's foreign policy course. Despite overtures from the Chinese, Viet Nam is expected to remain allied with the Soviet Union and to continue its military occupation of Kampuchea...