Word: canon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BASH allows members to borrow CDs from the club's collection (which includes what Jones calls the "canon" of the Beatles work), and sends members first notice about club activities, as well as seating for the as-yet unscheduled McCartney visit...
...losses of more than $100 million this year, and some analysts doubt that the effort will ever pay off. The devices (price range: $200 to $900) record images on microchips for computer users. But the field is already glutted with dozens of rivals, from traditional camera makers such as Canon and Nikon to Silicon Valley giants like Hewlett-Packard. Fisher counters that naysayers saw few profits in the 1980s in the business of cellular phones and pagers, which have grown into two of Motorola's most lucrative products. Says he of his record for confounding such doubters: "Been there. Done...
...doesn't leave much behind in the way of bricks and mortar. What has survived is the politics that once tied the place in knots. So Professor Robert Alter, one of the nation's best-known literary scholars, finds himself an officer in the culture war over the Western canon...
Buell says he believes that the classical canon is dying because scholars have differing ideas of what the canon should...
About one-third of all undergraduate English concentrators sent in a petition this year asking the department to abolish general exams. Talusan, one the organizers of the petition, says that "the idea of a unified canon is obsolete...