Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience surrogate. For Cameron, however, the Marines have another unstated use: "Their training and technology are inappropriate for the specifics, and that can be seen as analogous to the inability of superior American firepower to conquer the unseen enemy in Viet Nam: a lot of firepower and very little wisdom, and it didn't work...
...eliminating any language that might be deemed sexist--not least because by the end of the century a projected 40% of Methodist clergy will be women. Thus God of Our Fathers is to become God of the Ages, and out go Harry Emerson Fosdick's rousing lines: "Grant us wisdom, Grant us courage,/ That we fail not man nor thee." In some cases, traditional texts have been retained, but footnotes suggest alternative phrases. So come Christmastime, Methodist carolers are free to sing God Rest You Merry, Christians All, if that is their preference...
...course, he was too much the dreamer. His friend James Madison brought him down to earth, pointing out that generations were not mere tidy mathematical certainties and that debts, like those incurred for the American Revolution, could benefit those who were to come. As always, Jefferson acknowledged the wisdom of Madison's view, but he could never rid himself of the feeling that unrestrained debt was as great an enemy of "natural rights" as King George...
...Senator from New Jersey, first put tax reform on the national agenda. The idea of lowering rates for the many by eliminating breaks for the few was seen as noble but a bit naive in the real world of Washington politics. Well-financed special- interest groups, went the conventional wisdom, would quash any attempt to take away their favorite loopholes. But Bradley kept plugging away in his dogged fashion; he even published a book on the subject (The Fair Tax) that forcefully laid out the case for reform. This week his persistence will be vindicated by the votes of many...
Realizing "there comes a time when every summer will have something of autumn about it," he resolved not to grow out of sports. "There are others who were born with the wisdom to know that nothing lasts. These are the truly tough among us, the ones who can live without illusion, or without even the hope of illusion. I am not that grown up or up to date. I am a simpler creature, tied to more primitive patterns and cycles. I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that...