Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of a reader's pleasure lies in the urbanity with which Schlesinger rebuts received wisdom, as when in three crisp sentences he demolishes the ruling cliche of '80s politics: "Ronald Reagan is cited as the inevitable product of the television age. But Reagan, one surmises, would have been equally successful in the age of radio, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, or in the age of newsreels, like Warren G. Harding, or in the age of steel engravings and the penny press, like Franklin Pierce. Presidential candidates in the television era -- Johnson, Nixon, Humphrey, McGovern, Ford, Carter, Mondale -- hardly constitute...
Although Hoxha died last year, his isolationist policies still guide the current leadership, at least on the surface. In a speech to the Albanian Communist Party Congress earlier this month, Hoxha's handpicked successor, Ramiz Alia, 61, said, "Our party will apply his teachings with courage and wisdom." Yet even before Hoxha's death, Albania had begun to crack open its doors, and today there are signs that the eagle may be ready at long last to spread its wings...
...Spanish mountaintop ("Their flight on the sky was like fine scratches on film"); of a vista in Boise, Idaho ("My aunt's couch faced the door, which stood open, the view given a sepia tone by the rusted screen"). The author offers glimpses of strange lives and then, with wisdom and art, makes them clear and permanent...
...Lebanese magazine and the speaker of the Iranian parliament. Together they provided the major outlines of the secret dealings. Even as President Reagan pleaded for a halt to speculation, sources within his own Government confirmed much of the speculation and added important details. While some congressional leaders questioned the wisdom of making such a deal in the first place, other critics blamed the disclosure on the Administration's failure to take into account the danger of leakage and on its tendency toward improvisation and swashbuckling. Moreover, none of the information that emerged last week included potentially dangerous details about...
...recent elections proved anything, it was that the issues mean little, and the analysts know less. Instead of delving into the mass of campaign statistics to find precious needles of wisdom, it might be more interesting to review some individual stories and incidents of Election...