Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become conventional wisdom that only a stern anti-Communist such as Richard Nixon could have opened relations with China. It may also be that only a Nixon could have withdrawn U.S. forces from a conflict with a Soviet proxy and accepted a cease-fire that left thousands of Communist insurgents far beyond their legal borders, in place for an eventual onslaught. By the time the 1973 Paris accords were signed, any prudent politician might have had enough doubts about South Viet Nam's survival to start shifting blame to others for having "lost" an ally. Hawks like Nixon assailed doves...
Clad in gym shorts, he sits on a stack of textbooks, thoughtfully clenching a telephone receiver in his right hand. As he stares at the red pushbutton phone on the ground, he seems to ponder the wisdom of the advertising copy that surrounds him. "If you think about it, you'll choose AT&T," that copy concludes, But is that really...
Between 1936 and 1940, Schwab edited the journal of international poetry. Yggdrasil His appreciation of the German Romantics rests in particular on what he views as their spiritual assimilation of the Oriental. His treatment of Herder discerns in the pre-Romantic philosopher an awakened appreciation for primitive wisdom, the original versus the classic in poetry. Herder and Schelling are seen as the primary influences on Novalis's later search for a universal religion. He also discover overlays of Oriental motifs and values in "The Iranian Nieztsche" and "The Buddhism of Wagner...
...twice extended for a year, but last week President Reagan announced that they were finally being eliminated. He said that he would not seek to have the Japanese extend the controls when they expire at the end of this month. To do so, he said, would work against the "wisdom of maintaining the principle of free and fair trade...
...before the scheduled end of the trial, one of the most celebrated libel cases in American history was removed from a court of law and placed where legal scholars believed it belonged from the outset, in the court of public opinion. The result seemed to validate the conventional legal wisdom that public figures have little chance of sustaining libel victories % against the press, but to prove as well that their suits can cause significant concern and expense (see ESSAY...