Word: cannonism
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...Newsday column written in the midst of a city budget fight, reporter Dennis Duggan quoted an insider in then-New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins's administration as calling Proctor a "loose cannon...
Elizabeth may be the last irreproachable monarch -- perhaps the last viable one. Some earlier rulers have been reprobates, but by custom, the press protected them. Now royals are the cannon fodder in media wars, as the Prince of Wales found out when his puerile but genuinely intimate telephone talk with Parker Bowles -- the infamous "Tampax tapes" -- was leaked...
...although many professors say they would like students to leave Harvard well-versed in the cannon, they insist it is not up to the University to impose upon students one particular body of knowledge...
...terribly fond of discussion about the canon," adds Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Stanley H. Hoffmann. "I think it's trendy. What people consider to be the cannon changes every two or three years. I think much of that is quite vapid...
...with the cannon no longer shaping the basis of a common body of knowledge, nothing has emerged to fill the void...