Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...polls only a month ago has been lost on everyone but the President. We can only hope he stands fast in the months to come on his pledge to millions of hard-working Americans to restrain the growth of federal spending, even in the face of overwhelming "conventional wisdom" in the little world of Washington that "it just can't be done...
...fields of family life, on whom one vomited at three years, old, listened to at seven, and ignored at ten. Does Lasch find it easy to lead a psychologically sound and theoretically consistent life? Or has he found, on the contrary, that humility, intellectual generosity, and a too-fitful wisdom keep breaking...
...voters in their infinite wisdom are always right, as Sidey suggests, how does he explain their choice of Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover, Warren Harding and other disasters...
Sidey goes too far when he rhapsodizes over the wisdom of the plain people, whose voting preferences differed so sharply from those of America's intellectuals. Was it wisdom that North Carolinians showed in returning Jesse Helms to the Senate? Better to see it for what it is, a mixture of prejudice, gullibility and fear...
...Soviet Union to participate, along with Israel and Arab countries. The Jordanian monarch, who broke off talks with Arafat in April 1983, took a polite dig at Arafat's legendary indecisiveness. "The justification of the existence of a leader rests on his fulfillment of his responsibilities with wisdom and courage," Hussein declared. "It is not indefinite suspension but proper utilization that endows time with meaning...