As such, "The Story of Film" stands as an invigorated compendium of conventional wisdom.
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You can find a compendium of their past wisdom in Glenn Greenwald's Salon column.
Historians of the future will read her columns not as advice but as anthropology, a compendium of the conventional wisdom of mid-century America: Tip the pizza guy.
One reads the Vietnam war sections of Tom Brokaw's book, a compendium of American conventional wisdom on the Sixties, with a growing sense of amazement, disbelief and, ultimately, profound sadness.
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A transcript of Apfel's remarks in the film would make for a glittering compendium of hard-won practical wisdom and artistic musings.
For years, Deutsch's fellow rabbis kept telling him how their students grew excited by the citations of so many different animals in the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) and in the Talmud, the ancient compendium of Jewish teaching and wisdom.
Instead of presenting laundry lists of arcane maladies along with a key of "where in the brain the responsible lesion is," or a compendium of tests for a given situation the received wisdom that students are required to memorize Cytowic gives students the historical and conceptual tools they need not only to get up to speed regarding present knowledge, but to go forward.
"Seven Pillars of Wisdom".
