Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because the Cambridge crowd has a reputation for questioning accepted wisdom, public figures often decide to come to the Kennedy School when they want to re-open or revitalize a national debate...
Should Harvard--an institution founded on the principle that one can only serve one's country after having "Enter[ed] to Grow in Wisdom"--honor Margaret Thatcher? It is said in the Bible that he who causes discord in his own house shall inherit the wind. The void of vision in Britain now, backed by legions of unimpressive Tory and Labor back-benchers unable to deal with the mess she has made, is, in the end, Thatcher's only legacy to the British people...
...previous campaigns, both were known as men who valued substance over style. Now, Conventional wisdom says their rhetorical deviousness will color voter turn-out on election...
...case that less-prestigious alternatives wouldn't satisfy. Rather, the Rubin wannabes won't allow themselves to be satisfied with them. Satisfaction with anything less than what the conventional wisdom deems impressive raises fears of losing standing in the rat race. Contentment with less than the best might imply a slacker's complacency, a willingness to give up on the race. Or worse, it might reveal that you couldn't compete in the race...
...American city has so successfully reinvented itself as many times as Las Vegas. The only constants in Las Vegas--from the dream of Bugsy Siegel to the haunt of the Rat Pack to a collection of theme hotels evoking other times and places--have been the gambling and the wisdom that it is no destination for the culturally inclined. The opening last week of Steve Wynn's $1.6 billion Bellagio hotel and casino, modeled after an Italian Riviera village, is the initial step in a plan to change that perception. Among the first to sample the Bellagio's attractions were...