Word: cafeteria
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Over time, it became clear that the Pope's world view was considerably distanced from U.S. attitudes, many of which he found annoying. Dismayed by what had been called the cafeteria Catholicism of a flock that continued to attend Mass while largely ignoring much of what he preached, he grumbled that "you cannot pick and choose." Conversely, liberals in the U.S. and Europe came to see the Pontiff as a gloomy authoritarian whose ideology was a raft of contradictions--the doctor of philosophy who wanted to limit intellectual discourse, the vigorous advocate for human rights who defined homosexuality...
...coming to Harvard has been a huge transition for Taylor. Along with dealing with all the problems freshmen face during their first year of college—making new friends, eating cafeteria food, and doing his own laundry—Taylor has also had to adjust to playing a very different style of hockey...
...democracy entails sharing in the making of history or decision-making through everyday life, rather than when an election rolls around, then schools need to be democratized so that all a school’s participants—including students, teachers, and administrators, but also custodians, clerical workers, and cafeteria workers—participate together, routinely in school decision-making large and small. Routine and shared decision-making helps to bridge the all-too-silent social divides between teachers, students, and workers, and it instills some of the most significant education—about community, decision-making and power?...
...left with what one professor described to me as “Larry’s personality problem.” Rumors and gossip abound on this subject—and most sound like they came straight from a middle school cafeteria: Larry ignored me while I was talking, Larry was mean to me at lunch, Larry made fun of my idea, Larry excluded...
...would hang out, like, in the cafeteria,” Frank says. “My favorite [story] was my friend and I brought him to this three-on-three little suburban tournament...