Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baseball conventional wisdom says that the Yankees-Mariners series saved the game, that it took the bad taste of a strike still bitterly remembered out of the fans' mouths. Indeed, those five gritty games rekindled the spark that greed and intransigence had almost extinguished. We revived our passion for mammoth home runs, for blown saves and tenth-inning comebacks...
...based on an ever expanding body of knowledge handed down from one generation to the next, it follows that progress will occur only when additions are made to that knowledge. Although this is true for the most part, every era sees a few marked departures from the acquired wisdom--departures somes so radical as to create entirely new ways of looking at the evidence gleaned from the study of nature and disease...
Sherwin B. Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, wrote the 1994 National Book Award winner How We Die and The Wisdom of the Body, recently published by Knopf...
Giant pharmaceutical firms have long prospected the rain forests, screening randomly selected plants for potential products. But under Conte's direction, Shaman became one of the first companies to rely on the ancestral wisdom of native cultures. "It was a light bulb," Conte says. "Why not leverage out this knowledge of how plants have been used for thousands of years to get something that's more likely to be effective and safe...
...feisty editorial page, "you realize that if this place disappeared, it would not be reinvented. That imparts a sense of stewardship." The upside of this sense of mission is that it makes the paper careful in its judgments, scrupulous about corrections, conscious that its words can instantly become conventional wisdom. The drawback is that it can discourage innovative journalism...