Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have learned to smile knowingly when I have done no reading and am not even sure I am in the right class. And, finally, I have gained great wisdom from my fellow students, a point no better illustrated than in a comment made one day by a classmate known to me as Steamshovel Mouth...
...best of times--and then the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom--and then the age of foolishness. It was Social Relations--and then it became Sociology...
...Birmingham, one thief drove a stolen 1986 Buick Skylark / from a dealer's lot in Atlanta to Johnny's. He got $700, and Johnny got his name and telephone number. Says Charles Jordan, the Birmingham police sergeant who helped direct the operation: "After a while, greed takes over wisdom...
James Earl Jones, one of America's foremost classical actors, is appearing at the Goodman Theater in Fences, a new play by August Wilson, author of the Broadway melodrama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Wisdom Bridge Theater, which last year toured in Britain and played a summer season at the Kennedy Center in Washington, this week is reviving a much praised multimedia Hamlet. Directed by Robert Falls (who last month shifted from the artistic directorship of Wisdom Bridge to the same slot at the bigger-budget Goodman), this Hamlet employs a slide show, blues and rock sequences, video monitors...
...revenue dries up, another kind of wrenching social and political retrenchment is under way among the oil producers, and the risks for world order and stability are unpredictable. If concerned countries, including the U.S., do not act, as Mexico's Silva Herzog put it, with "speed and wisdom," the deepening plight of the former petropowers may lead to upheaval...