Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bergman's Funny and Alexander. Gledhill's PS is hardly a postscript. He not only captures the hearts of all the adults but is the most complete character in the story, his enormous gray blue eyes take in everything with a quiet appraisal and his innocently infantile comments reveal wisdom beyond his years...
...Wilson has committed himself to doing a great deal of work on this thing," he said. "He'll have to get used to condensing a complete thought into a kernel of wisdom...
...this model is less than a perfect one for the U.S. Japan's success may have more to do with the homogeneity and work ethic of Japanese society than with the wisdom of its Ministry of International Trade and Industry. (Actually, the Japanese and the neoliberals seem to be going in circles: lately, delegations of Japanese businessmen have been poking around Silicon Valley, trying to learn about good old-fashioned American entrepreneurialism. And competition among factories in Japan is often fierce.) Somehow the Japanese vision of happy workers, loyally singing company songs as they program their robots, is hard...
...column has appeared in San Francisco for all but three of the past 46 years, and its six-day-a-week mix of gossipy tidbits, hand-me-down gag lines and occasional nuggets of hard news, all separated by three-dot ellipses, is the closest thing to universal wisdom in the variegated Bay Area. Yet for all his clout as San Francisco's arbiter of the quotidian, Caen makes modest claims for his 1,000 words of items and sightems. "A lot of people time their boiled eggs by my column," he says. "It's just the right...
What's the difference? cries the good Dr. Seuss in a plea predictably hailed for its sanity by everyone from Art Buchwald ("must reading") to Ralph Nader ("a bundle of wisdom in a small package"). Now is it really necessary to observe that in this world, as opposed to Dr. Seuss's cuddly creation, what divides Yooks and Zooks is democracy and constitutional government, among other conventions? The principal reason Yooks insist on arming themselves is that the Zooks of this planet have the unfortunate tendency to build gulags (for export too) and to stockpile those nasty intercontinental...