Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrong choice could be disastrous. That is especially true when it comes to spanking. Every parent has been in a situation where a whack on the rear seems like the only recourse to little Janie's or Johnny's tantrum. But at least since the 1960s, the conventional wisdom propounded by parenting gurus has been that hitting is generally unwise because it sends a message that violence is an acceptable way to solve disputes...
...quickly in a free society controversy becomes consensus only to become controversy again when the new conventional wisdom jells. Take the national debate about divorce. In 1992 Vice President Dan Quayle made his infamous Murphy Brown speech railing against single motherhood and was ridiculed by almost every social observer to the left of Pat Robertson. Less than a year later, social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead published an essay in the Atlantic Monthly titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." Citing studies that tracked the development of children raised by single parents, she identified broken families as Public Enemy No. 1, responsible...
...forever--"as long as I don't push the gullibility of the audience by running around in a tank top when I'm 78. Doing uber-action at that age can be difficult, but Sean Connery has shown how action roles can be tempered with a bit of wisdom. Besides, I don't think I have the ability to manage eternal leisure...
Like virtually all Leigh's characters, Annie and Hannah are trapped in the hopelessness of modern life. Or should we make that modern English life? Educated to the point of glibness, but not to the point of wisdom, they know just enough to recognize the constraints of class, gender and material longing, but not enough to break through them, to achieve the freedom of mind and spirit that modernity keeps promising but never quite delivers. This leaves them at once ranting and wistful, delivering those arias of discontent--often funny, sometimes touching, always brutally frank--that are the hallmark...
Merilee S. Grindle, Mason professor of international development, spoke of the KSG's dependence on Lucker's wisdom, which she said was epitomized by the frequency with which the phrase "Ask Marge" was heard around the school...