Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...genuinely fresh jabs at popular culture. TV commercial references abound--"This is mutiny, men!" "Yeah, it'll take more than Bounty to clean up this mess." Missionary Position's Sun Myung Moon-esque paradise turns out to be McDonald's, with the preacher at his pulpit dispensing McNuggets of wisdom. Moon and McDonald's are, in fact, recurring themes throughout. And if we're talking themes, Ring Around the Collar, South Pacific, the Pi Eta Speaker's Club, breakfast cereals, old-boy networks, the Harvard Krokodiloes, and alligator/crocodile phenomena in general also undergo rigorous analysis...
...Even the wisdom of the Kissinger commission ignores the key problem in Central America, a runaway birth rate too great for the countries to absorb. Until that situation is brought under control, Marxism will continue to appeal to the hungry, illiterate masses...
...people who presumably know about their actual positions and performance." Body language may be the new communications signal in campaigns. It may not be a onetime aberration that an actor became President. Perhaps all future politicians will have to develop these qualities. One just hopes that the content and wisdom of their views will still matter...
EVERY DAY during reading period. I trudged through Dexter Gate on my way into the Yard and to Lamont. One morning I glanced up at the inscription--"Enter to Grow in Wisdom"--and laughed at the irony as I crammed for my finals. Late that night when I left the library I tried to get out to Mass. Ave. by the same gate but it was locked shut "Depart to Serve Better Thy Country and Thy Kind" was the statement above the padlock, and that too struck me as an appropriate coincidence...
...people that you just can't stand") that is one of Milk and Honey's sharpest cuts. This song, according to the call-and-response style established by Double Fantasy, is answered by One's reassuring Don't Be Scared, which contains wisdom ("If your hearts are lit/ Drop your survival kit/ Then you never have to/ Run or split") that would be poor balm even to the troubled soul of a fortune-cookie writer...