Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those expectations, Harvard's victory seemed Pyrrhic at best. The Crimson gave up 397 yards total offense, blew an 18-point lead and, in general, had to coax a John Elwayesque late-game performance out at senior quarterback Vin Ferrara to snatch the win. Conventional wisdom was that Saturday's game was hardly a promising beginning...
...sometimes conventional wisdom can be wrong. And, in all fairness to both sides, that seems to be the case with perceptions regarding Saturday's game...
...feels that its "blend of agony and ecstasy, work and play, caution and risk, painful serious learning and exuberant relaxation" offers something like an 18-hole way to enlightenment. Peck doesn't exactly say that if Jesus were to return to earth, he would have a 3 handicap, but wisdom and baloney might be added to his list just after agony and ecstasy. Both qualities are evident in his writings and his personality, though a surprising range of critics clearly feel that what predominates is wisdom, or at least solidly grounded common sense. And if you aren't willing...
...sport. The pace and rhythm of it." Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York and a ^ former minor leaguer, praises baseball's celebration of community, symbolized by the sacrifice bunt: "Giving yourself up for the good of the whole -- that's Jeremiah, that's thousands of years of wisdom." Political commentator George Will sees the sport as ideally suited to our democratic nation: "Democracy is government by persuasion. That means it requires patience ... Baseball is the game of the long season, where small, incremental differences decide who wins and who loses...
...film has its share of scabrous banter -- recombinant four-letter words galore -- but the conceit of Clerks is that foul-mouthed Jersey louts have elaborate vocabularies and pensive personalities. When Randal isn't shocking the frail with a list of porn-movie titles, he is offering such bartender wisdom to Dante as this: "That seems to be the leitmotiv of your life, ever backing down." Insults cascade into insights; obscenity snowballs into philosophy. Keeping the mind alert and the tongue sharp -- for the eloquent jerks in Clerks, that's more than a defense mechanism. It's a vocation...