Word: wisdoms
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...relations with the Harvard police are concerned, Anderson's parting words of wisdom were the following: "We've had some minor friction from time to time, but I would say that when we get supervisors, and even the unions, together, we've been able to improve our relations...
Sabbath is saved from slapstick by his desire to find relief and wisdom in his past. He comes closest in a conversation with a 100-year-old man who once delivered vegetables in Mickey's old neighborhood. Getting the spirit of the aged on paper has become something of a sub-specialty for Roth--notably in Patrimony, his tender and unsparing account of his father's life and death. The encounter between Sabbath and the centenarian is reminiscent of the earlier memoir...
...RAND CORP. WAR-GAME SCENARIO was a bit sensational. Who would believe that militant Islamists have the technological wisdom, manpower or money actually to launch a full-fledged information war against the U.S.? Ridiculous! Could a Third World nation procure a formidable, modern cyber-warfare capability virtually off-the-shelf? I don't think so. It is possible, however, for a Third World nation to engage in terrorist activities focused on the private sector of the U.S. America is technologically ahead of every Third World country by perhaps 80 years. Terrorist activities nowadays usually revolve around fuel oil and fertilizer...
Evolutionary psychology is a long way from explaining all this with precision, but it is already shedding enough light to challenge some conventional wisdom. It suggests, for example, that the conservative nostalgia for the nuclear family of the 1950s is in some ways misguided--that the household of Ozzie and Harriet is hardly a "natural" and healthful living arrangement, especially for wives. Moreover, the bygone American life-styles that do look fairly natural in light of evolutionary psychology appear to have been eroded largely by capitalism--another challenge to conservative orthodoxy. Perhaps the biggest surprise from evolutionary psychology...
...Dole too old for the Job?'' Nonsense. He has the experience to give him wisdom and the vitality to give him oomph. He's exactly what we need. America has changed in the past 60 years; in terms of medical progress there has been great success. Today the proper time to retire and the age at which Social Security benefits should become available is not 65 but 80. LOUIS R. WARD Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan...