Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their last day at Brent, three alumni teetering on the edge of 60 set off to find Senior Cave. This had been a modest hillside hole, concealed from the faculty by distance and foliage, where as boys they once spent many afternoons smoking cigarettes and drinking, for want of wisdom, cherry brandy. The day was warm, the hill steep, the pine-needle footing slippery, and the men were all overweight...
...spectacle was properly attended, students were prevented from leaving the campus, but many turned their backs and refused to watch. When the hangings were over, someone in the crowd released a dog wearing a colonel's uniform with quotations from the "Green Book" of Gaddafi's wisdom pinned to the sleeves. Police reportedly chased the dog around the campus and, failing to catch it, shot the animal dead...
...performer who is known to have searched for wisdom. MacLaine describes, to her Broadway audiences, step by step, a trek into the Himalayas, led by emissaries from a far-off holy man. At last she reaches him, asks for his guidance, and hears his musical reply: "Life is just a bowl of cherries. " The audience laughs and applauds, and from some corners there is a faint sigh of what sounds like relief that there has been no weighty message, no preaching...
Which raises the question of what will motivate men to pair up with older women. There will be those who do so out of a sincere appreciation of the special wisdom and grace that a well-matured woman possesses. These true souls will probably be counterbalanced, however, by men seeking Sugar Mommies and by those who view older women just as one-dimensionally (i.e., solely as sex objects) as they view their girlish counterparts...
That charge is not only unfair-it misses the point that there are substantially more legitimate doubts about the wisdom of this policy in particular and about the President's approach to complicated national security issues in general. Reagan has often been drawn instinctively to simplistic, gimmicky solutions to problems that entail layers upon layers of historical background and technical complexity. Reagan's early fascination with supply-side economics in its least sophisticated form and his advocacy of a two-China policy are but two examples. He abandoned both during the crash course in realism that comes with...