Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fixed incomes in drab apartments. They struggle for the necessities of life, ignored by their children and sick most of the time. That is the stereotype of old folks in America. Last week, however, the annual report of the President's Council of Economic Advisers challenged such conventional wisdom. Said the report: "Thirty years ago the elderly were a relatively disadvantaged group in the population. That is no longer the case." Most elderly people today live in paid-for homes, with enough money to enjoy their leisure years...
...Morrow sifts time like sand in an hourglass, revisiting the places and stations of his life. They are brilliantly specific, but they resonate far beyond their locales. In Washington, "politics, elections, chicaneries flowed through private conversation . . . marinated in Scotch and cigarette smoke," and the boy immediately associates tobacco with wisdom and maturity. At Harvard, a fellow student tells him Schopenhauer, the ultimate pessimist, " 'knows the way life is' . . . life was painful. 'No,' I would say. 'Life is not like that at all.' I was terrified that it might...
...preferential treatment causing patronizing attitudes among whites and encouraging Blacks toward lifetime dependence. Mansfield's comments on President Derck Bok's article in The New Republic amount to so much nonsense--and racist nonsense at that, something he and Charles Murray and other neo-conservative writers consider their conventional wisdom there days, (Crimson...
CHALLENGING THE conventional wisdom of Harvard Liberalism has gotten easier in the past several years--but not by much, as our attitude towards the election this past year showed. I supported Walter Mondale for president, openly and vocally, as did most other students on campus, if polls conducted last fall are accurate. But much of this support, you got the sense, was predicated on the notion that there was no intellectual basis for backing Reagan. "You voted for Reagan?!" was a phrase said only half in jest most of the time, as if somehow the errant person were a mental...
Grant our Supreme-Court justices long lives, Lord, but barring that, grant the president, as he selects new justices, the wisdom of Solomon and, to protect against entreaties from Jerry Falwell, a deaf right...