Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conventional wisdom in the thirtysomething era declares that the American marriage is in serious trouble: a sky-high divorce rate, new stresses and tensions in the sex wars and easy opportunities for extramarital adventures. Not so, according to a new survey conducted by Gallup for Psychology Today and two national TV programs, King World's Inside Edition and ABC's HOME. Although some experts question its accuracy, the poll indicates Americans are surprisingly and happily monogamous. In the survey, 90% of husbands and wives said they had never been unfaithful to their spouses, and most gave high approval ratings...
...married women have at least one extramarital affair." A survey conducted by Lillian Rubin, a sociologist at Queens College in New York City, shows a 40% infidelity rate for spouses. Greeley and Harris have two explanations for the disparity between their poll's results and the conventional wisdom: 1) most sexual surveys are either obsolete or unscientific; 2) people are victims of what the authors call "pluralistic ignorance." Translation: erroneous beliefs shared by some individuals about other people. Even the enchanted spouses in the P.T. poll did not believe their commitment to fidelity was widely shared...
...conventional wisdom was promulgated by Kremlin and Kremlinologists alike. Yes, Gorbachev had created the conditions for the end of one-party rule in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria by putting the regimes there on notice that they were on their own. But no, he could not, would not and probably should not give up the Communist monopoly in his own country...
According to Cabot, the success of HMC stems from the independence that the University, "in its wisdom," gave the firm right from its conception. As an example, Cabot points to the fact that the company has its own board of directors, benefit plans for employees, hiring procedures and compensation programs...
Free discussion cannot exist when one side does not listen to the other. In their infinite wisdom, Harvard's liberal leaders have decided on the answers. They do not need to listen, because no one could possibly teach them anything...