Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are good reasons for such secrecy. The College is a fairly small community, and rumors travel rather rapidly. A false or distorted story can quickly and irrevocably destroy a student's reputation. And, contrary to the conventional wisdom, Mother Harvard does "coddle her young...
...didn't. Bet you something else too: that the Messrs. Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen are just as surprised as you are. When it comes to the movies, we are all hostages to the conventional wisdom of the moment--the smart and the smarter, the dumb and the dumber...
...year ago, acting on that wisdom, Katzenberg was getting ready to release The Lion King, and even then, before the $315 million rolled in (not to mention the record $450 million in home-video sales it has racked up in the past two weeks), it didn't look like a high-stakes gamble; Disney animation has been a sure thing ever since Beauty and the Beast. At the same time, Spielberg was preparing to send forth The Flintstones (domestic gross: $135 million), and that was a pretty sure thing too. Lesser men than he had observed that the boomer market...
While lawmakers in Washington were debating the wisdom of adding new amendments to the Constitution, lawmakers in Mississippi finally got around to ratifying the nation's 13th--the one abolishing slavery--130 years after the fact. Mississippi remained the lone holdout until a black state senator raised the point...
...PRESENT predicament? In the always conventional wisdom of Washington, legions of the elderly and those nearing retirement are terrified that any change, even the smallest, will lead sooner or later to slashing their none too generous government checks. And they will punish any legislator who doesn't swear to keep hands off the system with the electoral equivalent of burning at the stake. This attitude certainly exists, and not only among older Americans of modest means. Leonard Schwartz, 52, a lawyer in Austin, Texas, earns a six-figure income and has built up a sizable nest egg for the retirement...