Word: wisdoms
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...lexicon of the '90s, "pragmatism" has emerged as one of the most popular words. As the conventional wisdom has it, ideology is out and pragmatism is in. Radicalism has been replaced by realism, dogma by day-to-day action. Pragmatism has been used to explain everything from economic reforms in Eastern Europe and communist China and the shift of power away from Marxist apparatchiks, to the 1992 victory of Bill Clinton and the centrist tilt of the "New Democrats...
Sheila Burke, executive dean of the Kennedy School of Government, offers students the wisdom she garnered during a full and varied professional career...
...families. Families need help, however, which friends, churches, and schools provide. The liberal academy has a special role in taming the barbarians. It takes the few outstanding members of each generation and turns them into the men and women who preserve a society's greatest treasures, the collected wisdom of the ages that defines a society at its most essential level...
...School has had in place for some time a "mandatory" class attendance policy. The 1997-1998 catalog contains the following language: "Classwork is essential to the educational program at the Law School. Regular attendance at classes and participation in classwork are expected of all students." The wisdom of this "mandatory" attendance policy was not at issue in the Legal Education Committee's deliberations last semester...
Bill Clinton's latest imbroglio carries a valuable lesson in self-government. This lesson speaks to the fundamental presumption of democratic self-government, that the people have wisdom and virtue enough to elect politicians wise and virtuous enough to rule. That presumption is at bottom a moral one because it presumes a moral people...