Mr. Olsson's film reaches beyond received wisdom into the difficult and contradictory truth of the time, and in a similar vein — though in a completely different style — Natalia Almada's "Velador" pushes beyond media clichés about Mexico's drug war.
In the preface to "Inside Al Qaeda and the Taliban," he wrote, "Independent reporting for the alternative media best suits my temperament as it encourages me to seek the truth beyond 'conventional wisdom.' As a result, I study people and situations from a relatively uncompromised position".
Robert Frank, a Journal reporter on the committee who was a close friend of Mr. Pearl, said one goal of the memorial was to inspire the newspaper's employees with the idea that "a good journalist always questions everything and always goes beyond conventional wisdom".
But "The Attic," a smart, sensitive play by the Japanese writer Yoji Sakate currently having its American premiere with the Play Company, takes us beyond conventional wisdom on the trend's origins, which has tended to understand it as a reaction to Japan's intensely competitive educational and economic systems.
Beyond his wisdom and humor, what strikes me most about Vardi is his generosity of spirit.
Beyond this wisdom, there is a basic problem with what started me thinking about all this in the first place: Resting Bitch Face.
Actually, it's a belief that goes beyond conventional wisdom -- it is an object of faith, the central tenet of the inside-the-Beltway religion known as High Broderism.
After another act of brutality, specifically a kick to her newly-stitched stomach, the bag ruptures, its chemical content spilling into her system, fortifying Lucy with hallucinatory clarity far beyond Alex and his droogs, and wisdom beyond any program Neo could download.
Especially noteworthy are: The Mystery of Being, Creative Fidelity, Homo Viator, Being and Having, Tragic Wisdom and Beyond and the concise "On the Ontological Mystery".
"She has a wisdom beyond her years".
