Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accepted wisdom in Washington that each new First Family gets to put its personal imprimatur on the decor of the White House. It is also the right of every self-respecting armchair decorator to criticize the First Family's taste. The Lincolns were disparaged as spendthrifts. Rutherford Hayes' refurbishings were deemed "French-y and pretentious." Teddy Roosevelt smeared the Green Room with a polar-bear pelt, and purists reached for the smelling salts when Harry Truman built a balcony over the South Portico. Even decor queen Jackie Kennedy was sharply rebuked by the President himself when an all-too-authentic...
...well-attended Divinity School speech last night, Princeton Professor Michael Walzer offered a critique of wisdom and prudence and their roles in political affairs...
Speaking to about 100 people in Andover Hall, Walzer quoted liberally from the Book of Proverbs and other biblical "wisdom writings," seeking to "show both the wisdom of wisdom and its failings...
Walzer, who received his PhD from Harvard in 1961, and taught in the Government Department here from 1966 to 1980, delivered the William James Lecture on Religious Experience, entitled "Biblical Wisdom: The Value and Limits of Political Prudence...
Walzer discussed the evolution and role of wisdom and wise men and women--advisors with special expertise in political and social matters--in biblical times...