Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been her heart's truest desire caresses Anna's face with his large hand. An older Anna looks back on that moment with a smile that understands and accepts everything. For out of these private conversations, Bergman says, something beyond anguish or exaltation may emerge. Something like wisdom...
Whitehead's fable is swift and pointed and by no means solely about race. Watson's tenaciousness, faith and curiosity are universal virtues, allowing her to maneuver in a society petrified by caste and class. What saves her, and ultimately brings her peace, is literature, the wisdom of the masters. The deeper she digs for knowledge and understanding, the higher she rises. A book is her black...
...bearing witness, no American President worked harder than Jimmy Carter, and so it somehow seems appropriate that the 39th President, now 74, has become a guru of his latest stage of life. His book The Virtues of Aging (Ballantine) has become a best seller because of its unpretentious wisdom. Carter writes about how he and his wife Rosalynn have adjusted to getting older, even addressing their sex life. ("Rosalynn and I have learned to accommodate each other's desires more accurately and generously.") Not surprisingly, their retirement is busier than the entire careers of most younger people (Carter's mother...
...this happen? Who is responsible for the bug we call Y2K? Conventional wisdom goes something like this: back in the 1950s, when computers were the size of office cubicles and the most advanced data-storage system came on strips of punched cardboard, several scientists, including a Navy officer named Grace Murray Hopper, begat a standard programming language called COBOL (common business-oriented language). To save precious space on the 80-column punch cards, COBOL programmers used just six digits to render the day's date: two for the day, two for the month, two for the year...
...sign that you haven't quite made it to the top rung of superstardom. Today co-anchor Katie Couric, one of NBC's biggest stars despite the fact that she has to appear in full makeup at 7 a.m., has gone a long way toward disproving that accepted wisdom. Still, early-morning duty is widely regarded as a stepping stone to the really plum jobs on the evening news or one of the prime-time newsmagazines...