Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...universe. Admits Postman: "If I'd been at the receiving end of this news, I'd be skeptical too. But the modus operandi of an observer is to report what Nature is telling us." And that's true whether or not the news conforms to the conventional wisdom...
...help but admire his way of putting things. He has a real knack for producing fortune-cookie phrases that pass for universal truths in his world: "Money is harder to find than a true blonde," and "Success is just a fool's word for survival." These wisdom-bites accumulate and form an actual weltanschaung--bleak but authentic. Jimi emerges as a megaphone for the Generation we all know as X, a generation overeducated and underemployed by today's working world...
Wallerstein, 73, was concerned before it was fashionable. In 1970, while at the School of Social Welfare at the University of California,Berkeley, she began a study of 131 children whose parents were divorcing. In the mid-'70s, when popular and academic wisdom held that ending a bad marriage worked to the long-term benefit of all concerned, she recalls reporting that 18 months after the breakup "we didn't see a single child who was well adjusted. And we didn't see a single child to whom divorce was not the central event of their lives...
...conventional wisdom is "at Yale you'retaught by faculty, at Harvard you're taught bygrad students. That's [not true]," Liazos said...
...balance to their sexual tension is provided by the stablizing influences of Bonnie James and James L. Shelton as Alberta and Willie. Though the two never meet, they share their wisdom, gained through years of experience, with the impulsive Deedee and Shooter. Each has a secret whose tension adds depth to the pure sexual energy of Norman's script, and brings each act to a dramtic conclusion...