Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McFarlane, a former Marine officer, objected on principle to the fact that Nitze had "wandered off the reservation." He drafted a memorandum for Clark to send to Shultz, reprimanding Nitze for exceeding his instructions and asking Shultz to rein him in. McFarlane also questioned the military wisdom of giving up the Pershing II, which would leave the U.S. with only cruise missiles to counter the Soviets' ballistic...
After witnessing the cowardly reaction of our so-called allies in Europe to our initiative in Grenada, I have come to question the wisdom of a greater U.S. role in the defense of Western Europe. Let us oblige them and withdraw all U.S. forces and weapons from their lands...
...tragic." Anyone who sees the movie will detect the narrowness of his statement. During the last scene, when Dorothy removes her clothes and lamely offers herself to her lunatic husband/captor, actress Mariel Hemingway (who portrays her) virtually redefines the word "heartbroken": Her eyes and posture convey the sudden wisdom, tragic in its belatedness, of a naive individual who finally realizes that she has not been loved at all, but only used. To dismiss Stratten's murder just because she journeyed into a corner of the world which most people find distasteful and irrelevant would be a waste; her fate provides...
...tattooed on his chest in invisible ink," says one Harvard professor, echoing the conventional wisdom about Martin's institutional loyalty. The physicist not only attended the College, but also got his Ph.D. here, and has been at Harvard almost his entire academic life...
Some of us even thought a park with grass, trees and benches would be nice. What a novel idea for Harvard. But no, the University, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to test (once again) our thresholds of pain. As a child, I used to ask my mother where ugly buildings came from. Tenderly, she would reply that they had always been there; it was God's way of revealing the imperfection of the temporal world. The building of Sackler Hall lays to rest another one of my childhood beliefs...