Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tempted to ask the driver to stop and let me out, but children were playing in front of it, and I thought better of disturbing their play and privacy for the sake of what by now was empty curiosity." This is a book that expresses kindness, strength and wisdom...
...proud that these historical changes have come about without bloodshed or force. This is the result of the wisdom of the people. No one called for revenge...
...years there has been dissenting wisdom in the West. Most notably, George Kennan, the intellectual godfather of the original concept of containment, has objected to the way it was applied; he has cautioned against demonizing the adversary, overestimating enemy strength and overmilitarizing the Western response...
...think the West could bring about the seismic % events now seizing the U.S.S.R. and its "fraternal" neighbors. If the Soviet Union had ever been as strong as the threatmongers believed, it would not be undergoing its current upheavals. Those events are actually a repudiation of the hawkish conventional wisdom that has largely prevailed over the past 40 years, and a vindication of the Cassandra-like losers, including Kennan...
Shibboleths in the West were evaporating almost as fast as regimes in the East. It had long been a tenet of conventional wisdom that Czechoslovakia, the homeland of the Good Soldier Schweik, would be one of the last nations to join the march of freedom. Maybe, just maybe there would be another Prague Spring in 1990. But the thaw came in the fall instead. Demonstrations began in mid- November. The first was a legal assembly of students sponsored by the communist-dominated Socialist Union of Youth. But that organization was seething with discontent, and 3,000 of the marchers moved...