Word: wised
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when Evan Thomas and I were writing The Wise Men, a history of American cold war diplomacy, Bundy told us that there was no such thing as the Establishment. If so, it was Bundy as much as anyone who brought about the end of an era in which foreign policy was entrusted to a noble club of gentlemen secure in their common outlook and bonds of trust. As his successor Walt Rostow recalled thinking at the end of the 1968 meeting of elders that Bundy helped convene, "The American establishment is dead...
...spent a large part of my three and a half years at Harvard at PBH and suffered many headaches, considered quitting many times, and often wanted to surrender. In the end, whether I am on the wrong or right side of the organizational tide, I know that I was wise to stick it through. Although it manifests itself in many different ways, seeing the dedication our volunteers and program directors have to our communities is reason to remain idealistic. I know we make mistakes, but without those mistakes we would never change or learn. If nothing else, I have witnessed...
...would not have been wise to try to mount a graduate program without enough faculty," Gates says...
Becnel agreed to collaborate, and negotiated a contract with Rosen Publishing Group, a small New York house specializing in supplemental reading for "at risk" children. "The power of his writing was very clear from the beginning," recalls publisher Roger Rosen. "He has a wise and compassionate voice...
Sophomore--from Harvard College--foolish enough to want to do it all over again, but wise enough to know that...