Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vidal has always been impossible to pigeonhole. He is ever the restless bull in the china shop of conventional wisdom. He is also a serious student of history. Jason Epstein, his old friend and longtime publisher, correctly calls Vidal "the last in a line of men of letters -- among whom Edmund Wilson is a classic example. Scholars like him are rare in any age, polymaths with a huge range of interests." Vidal can lampoon the New Testament because he knows the Bible and Roman history...
...talk endlessly on any subject, it seems, and her speech is peppered with personal wisdom in spontaneous, colorful phrases...
...Words of wisdom indeed...
...JEROME SULLIVAN TOLD YOU SO. MORE THAN A decade ago, the South Carolina medical researcher came up with a theory explaining why young women rarely have heart attacks. It isn't that they are protected by the hormone estrogen, as conventional wisdom had it, said Sullivan, but that they lose iron every month during menstrual bleeding. And iron, he believed, promotes heart attacks. Now a study from Finland, published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, has provided strong evidence that he was right...
...1950S AND EARLY '60S, THE most bloodcurdling years of the civil rights movement, a great Southern judge, and there were not many of them, needed not only wisdom and fairness but a lot of nerve. Which is why Frank Johnson, a federal district judge who was equipped with all three, emerged as one of the heroes of that era. After the Eisenhower appointee declared that the segregated buses of Montgomery, Alabama, were illegal, his mother's house was partly destroyed by a bomb that was apparently meant for him. Undaunted, Johnson went on to apply Supreme Court antidiscrimination rulings...