Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lithuanians have shown more political courage than political wisdom. Neither quality has been much in evidence from those members of the U.S. Congress who have called for formal recognition of a free Lithuania. Such a thing should and may someday exist, but it cannot be voted into existence by legislators in either Vilnius or Washington in defiance of Moscow. By applauding a morality play as though it were itself a happy ending, Congress is only increasing the chances that it will turn into a tragedy...
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...worry that someday, when one of them is eating a salad or some yogurt, a paradoxically ignorant tutor will approach and compliment them on their apparently pleasing slimness. And one of them might think this woman knows something. But both of them can easily find this kind of wisdom and judgment from their peers. The apple does not fall far from the tree, but the problem is now even Eve would...
...childhood in Queens, N.Y. "One day we saw this amazing movie Truffaut had done about street kids called The 400 Blows, and it spoke to us," recalls Harvey. "We fell in love with films." They still go with what speaks to them personally, putting no stock in prevailing Hollywood wisdom. They were enchanted last year by My Left Foot, about a severely crippled Irish artist. "So many people said, 'It's not sexy, it doesn't have the ingredients of a hit,' " recalls Harvey. "That's when I said...
...they reached $7 million. He then found that the Senate, already embroiled in the post-Civil War quarrels that would lead to the impeachment of President Johnson, refused to ratify "Seward's Folly." Only after Stoekl spread substantial sums of money among influential Senators did the legislators suddenly see wisdom in the spectacular bargain...