Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impressed with Pearlstine's account of his dinner with Jiang. It brought the problems facing China today clearly into focus. I agree that "the stronger China becomes economically, the better it will be" for both the U.S. and China. I hope that our representatives in Congress see the wisdom of these words. BILL CORBETT Centerville, Mass...
...culture, we venerate symmetrical faces, women with perky breasts, men with V-shaped torsos. But is it the fault of Vogue editors and Aaron Spelling that we do so? Skewering the popular wisdom that beauty is a social construct, this Harvard psychologist argues that we ogle such features because they radiate the health and fertility our species needs to survive. Avoiding ideological rant, Etcoff employs rigorous scientific research and amusing detail to create a great read, albeit one that won't become Naomi Wolf's favorite...
About five hours north of Yosemite is Virginia City, Nev., where Samuel Clemens adopted his nom de plume. The conventional wisdom is that "Mark Twain" comes from the riverman's term for water two fathoms deep. Joe Curtis, owner of Mark Twain's Bookstore, offers an alternative theory. Clemens used to order his whiskey two shots at a time in Virginia City, telling the bartender to put it on his tab: "Mark me for twain [two]." Twain wrote for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in the early 1860s, chronicling the town's gold- and silver-fueled rise. His recollections...
...censors who periodically ban Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, because it deals with menstruation. In the culture that came up with Baywatch, police officers still sometimes confuse breast feeding with indecent exposure. And, willfully or not, the evolutionary psychologists keep fueling the pop wisdom that the sexes originated on separate home planets, neither one of them earth...
...opening of the exhibition last week. At 85, Ford was as forthright as ever. He chided the Republicans for shifting too far to the right, praised George W. Bush for being more moderate than his dad, said Elizabeth Dole will be a formidable candidate, and questioned the wisdom of committing U.S. troops in Kosovo. He lamented that the Clinton scandal and the failure to resolve it quickly with a bipartisan censure "had an adverse effect on the presidency...