Word: wisdoms
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Ellis Paul, a critical favorite, followed, but his short passionate songs lacked the youthful honesty of Means or the twangy wisdom of the Charles River Valley Boys. The Silver Leaf Gospel choir took the show to intermission in overalls with an African fabric swatch reminiscent of a cummerbund under black suit coats. Their singing, deeper than Widener and friendlier too, inclusive of both Jesus and the "I just might take a nip" phenomenon, was authentically folk, seemingly grown on a stalk independent of any folk revivals or Newport festivals...
Ragtime seems to hint that as long as wecan all keep our arms open to change and progress,things will be all right. But when one stops toconsider that these words of wisdom are comingfrom (of all places) an enormously successfulBroadway musical, the strength and wisdom of themessage suddenly rings a bit hollow...
...that the impeachment debacle is nearing a conclusion, it's time for damage control by both parties. Conventional wisdom has the Republicans hurting more -- but the Democrats have good reason to be worried too. Though polls indicate that Democrats are navigating through the controversy reasonably well, "Clinton's high approval rating is in large measure a backlash result of what is perceived to be an impeachment stampede," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. In other words, after the trial ends and the sympathy factor dissipates, Clinton and his fellow Democrats will need to worry about an inevitable fall...
Today most Americans would say that those delegates got it backwards, but that viewpoint says more about how much the Senate has changed than it says about the framers' wisdom. When the framers chose the Senate to be the trier of presidential impeachments, they did not expect senators to be popularly elected, they did not foresee the ascendance of powerful political parties, and they may well have expected secrecy to be the norm in the Senate, as it was during its first six years...
...cousins). All told, Pearlman pumped $1 million into the group and $2 million more into an entertainment-company infrastructure to support its members before they signed with Jive Records. At the time, alternative rock was still big, the New Kids were played out, and industry wisdom was that bubble gum was over. But all things must return as well as pass...