Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wisdom of the U.S. invasion of Grenada will be debated for years. The unprecedented exclusion of the American press from that operation requires no debate; clearly it was a bad mistake, an outrage to press freedom and an ominous symptom of a tendency in the Reagan Administration to try to control the flow of information...
However, as Sevcenko begins putting on the finishing touches to 10 years worth of on-and-off editing and translating of that particular text, he adds that the conventional wisdom is apparently wrong...
...conventional wisdom holds that Shultz is the bureaucratic winner. Up to now, he has been reluctant to enter the political fray, seldom advocating tough policy positions within the Administration. He has been a reassuring gray eminence, radiating sobriety and good sense. Now the Secretary of State has no rival stationed at the White House whom he has to outmaneuver. With U.S. entanglements around the world unusually complex and dangerous, it is a good time for George Shultz to step out front - and maybe even make some waves...
Saturday's extravaganza was intended as a challenge to Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government. Many questioned the continued usefulness of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the wisdom of its strategy for defending Western Europe. No one believed that U.S. and Soviet negotiators would reach an agreement at the Geneva arms talks in time to avert the missiles' arrival (though West German opposition Disarmament Spokesman Egon Bahr last week recommended acceptance of a Soviet position in the talks). Nor did most protesters seriously think that by penetrating U.S. military bases they could block deployment physically. What they...
That received wisdom may now be on the way out: one rookie series appears to have the goods to make it in the majors. Bay City Blues, which premieres Oct. 25 on NBC, is a weekly hourlong show about the fortunes of a minor-league baseball club called the Bay City Bluebirds. Kisses and bases are stolen; suitors and batters strike out; umpires and spouses cry foul. Created by Steven Bochco and Jeffrey Lewis (Hill Street Blues), it is a wry, | funny, poignant and surprisingly grownup show about men who play a boys' game...