Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grove stopped to peer into the wire room, a small area overstuffed with fax and teletype machines, and exclaimed, "This is absolutely incredible equipment! In fact, it should be in the Smithsonian." That and subsequent conversations with Andy over the years taught me to appreciate his wit and his wisdom and sensitized me to the power of the chip and its role in our lives...
...starred in this HBO drama about the scandalous Tuskegee study of syphilis in which black subjects were not given treatment. The script was intelligent; Woodard exquisitely captured the conflicting motivations of her character, a nurse involved in the study; and Laurence Fishburne played her lover with rough charm and wisdom. The film justly served a terrible event...
...serious scientist would credit the notion, both unverified and unverifiable, that recalling the repressed, articulating the instinctual, magically undoes the inhibitions and pathologies of life. But no matter. So thoroughly has this fable soaked into the culture that it is now mere conventional wisdom that if we just let it all out from the deep recesses of our souls--the anger, the fear, the prejudice, whatever--we will all be better...
...Beastie Boys interviews him in Rome for Rolling Stone. In the past few years he has opened 11 Offices of Tibet, everywhere from Canberra to Moscow, and last year alone provided prefaces and forewords for roughly 30 books. The 14th Dalai Lama is surely the only Ocean of Wisdom, Holder of the White Lotus and Protector of the Land of Snows to serve as guest editor of French Vogue...
Blair said that the motto of Phi Beta Kappa is "Love of wisdom, the guide of life...