Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every woman knows that the truth about motherhood falls somewhere between the recent outpourings from Germaine Greer [BEHAVIOR, April 16] and the canned wisdom of Phyllis Schlafly. What perplexes me is why a woman like Greer, who has experienced almost everything but maternity, salutes her sisters with respect, and Schlafly, the mother of six children, pats us on the head with tender-loving superiority...
...national religious faith. How did America become the leading economic nation in the world? We have drawn tremendous power from two great forces, faith and freedom. America was founded by people who sought freedom to worship God and to trust Him to guide them in their daily lives with wisdom, strength, goodness and compassion...
...recent weeks, these conflicting perceptions of Jesse Jackson have come to overshadow his remarkable achievements in the Democratic primaries. Almost overnight, he shattered the prevailing wisdom that a black could not make a credible run for the presidency. He has spurred an unprecedented black voter turnout, outlasted five more politically experienced white rivals, and picked up enough delegates and prestige to play a major role at the Democratic Convention in July. Says former Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss: "Jesse Jackson has had a larger impact on American politics than either he or anyone else anticipated." But as his successes...
...disciplined exercises by an apprentice who already senses the sorcerer he will become. Pynchon's attempt to dismiss himself as just a regular guy is charming but a little disturbing, suggesting a weariness with the task of being different. He even includes a sentence that implicitly questions the wisdom of remaining in hiding: "Somewhere I had come up with the notion that one's personal life had nothing to do with fiction, when the truth, as everyone knows, is nearly the direct opposite." This might be taken to mean that Pynchon could...
...might be possible to market a national leader on image alone-that voters would respond to the sizzle and forget to ask, Where's the steak? Presidential candidates spend up to $16 million on broadcast messages, and media strategists often become their most powerful advisers. The conventional wisdom is that a candidate's ads set the tone and direction for his campaign. But conventional wisdom in American politics has a way of being debunked, and this year the prideful place of paid ads is being taken by an older and far less expensive form of political communication...