Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July, Lewis wrote in an e-mail message that he "fear[ed] that the publication in The Crimson of the names of all the finalists...has undermined, in the eyes of some, confidence in the wisdom of giving students sensitive information...
...bachelors around, is off the market. He just wed Dalia Asafi, 18, of Houston, in an arranged marriage. "There's no dating, no boyfriends and girlfriends in Islam," said Olajuwon, 33, who has a child from a prior relationship. His new wife, he says, "possesses a maturity, knowledge and wisdom beyond her years...
...Dole will stand before this week started to take shape more than three decades ago, at about the time he arrived in national politics. Dole was first elected to the House in 1960, the year Jack Kennedy regained the White House for Democrats, who already controlled Congress. The conventional wisdom foresaw a new era of liberalism and activist government. For once the conventional wisdom was right. But most of the 40 or so G.O.P. House freshmen were so right-leaning they were called the Young Fogeys. That was fine with Dole. During his eight years in the House, he would...
...revelations of sophomore-year marijuana smoking might have responded with, "Sure, I did a little weed in college." But no. The next pol acknowledged that he had "experimented" with marijuana in college. Like the first pol, he said that he experimented very few times and that, in the full wisdom of adulthood, he regrets that he experimented at all. The next pol said the same thing. So did the pol after that...
Books: Sidestepping the calculated dead-tree weight of mainstream writing, I wanted to spend one minute to mark an anomaly, a record that is noteworthy for its lasting evasion of conventional wisdom in marketing...