Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holly" Whyte, an irrepressible 71, has been lobbing potshots at purveyors of conventional wisdom about cities for more than 20 years. He started making waves in 1956 with his bestseller The Organization Man, one of the first exposes of the emptiness of corporate life. In 1974 the National Geographic Society awarded him its first domestic expedition grant to pursue his urban sleuthing...
...pretty much the same. According to textbooks, only two of the 46 gene-carrying chromosomes in a human cell -- a pair known as the sex chromosomes -- are noticeably different in males and females. But at a genetics seminar last week at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Me., this conventional wisdom took a beating. Participants cited evidence that there may be many more differences in male and female genes than previously thought. That revelation challenges assumptions about heredity held for more than a century...
...mismatches keep the adrenaline flowing and the nostalgia and hopes burning for a flock of Foreman camp followers. Archie Moore, who the record books say is 75, was light-heavyweight champ until he was at least 48. Now Moore has signed on as resident guru and gerontologist. "Ah, the wisdom and cunning of age," Moore muses. "Make the young man take three steps to your one. Smotin' power, that's what it comes down to. George can still smote, oh yes he can." Moore also knows something about losing weight. Eat all you like, he once suggested, just...
Before I left for college my first year, my parents bade me heed the advice of Polonius, one of the wise fools in Shakespeare's Hamlet. As his son, Laertes, prepares to leave for France, Polonius leaves him with two pieces of wisdom, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be," and "to thine own self be true...
...while the people at the peak of Mount Harvard--like President Derek C. Bok--are much too busy and important to speak to you, in their infinite wisdom they have assembled a cast of less luminous, but always smiling, characters to handle undergraduate concerns...