Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout history the virtues of selected silence have been noted with noisy regularity ("He who knows nothing else knows enough if he knows when to be silent," goes an Italian proverb). Yet the practitioners of that wisdom have been few in American politics. The blabbermouths have been ascendant...
Reagan probably knows full well what he wants to do, but he has the stage director's savvy to let the drama build and the political wisdom to keep that last option open should the world turn sour. He had a teacher, Franklin Roosevelt. For three years F.D.R. built up the idea of a third term with his silence. He may have confided in Eleanor, but probably not until the end of that time, according to his former administrative assistant James Rowe. When asked about his plans, Roosevelt never gave a direct answer. Rowe and others were too awed...
...Nicaragua. Mexico knows from experience that the creation of political and economic institutions in a country that had none whatsoever is an extremely difficult and complex process. It requires time, political wisdom and political experience...
...Honduras. It is difficult to know how the political system will be affected by the presence of the U.S. military and the contras on Honduran territory. As far as I know, some of the opposition parties have questioned the wisdom of having such a large military presence in Honduras. It may make military forces predominant within Honduran society. We would very much prefer to see the responsibility for government remain with civilians...
...family, assured performers all, became television-wise without gaining the wisdom to explain what television did to them. Mr. and Mrs. Loud, now 62 and 56, had naively imagined that the initial documentary would reveal them as hipper versions of Ozzie and Harriet. "I, to this day, am embarrassed," she confesses. Other wounded and still wondering voices of the Louds linger in the memory. Bill, bristling and unrepentant: "It didn't hurt anybody; it didn't affect anybody." Grant, a singer who went from croaking Frank Zappa to crooning Frank Sinatra: "We're not quite so trusting...