Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school in southern New Hampshire. Alf hates Brent Meuller, a literary deconstructionist, whom Alf finds "contentious, dismissive, cocky, and a great hit with the students; he played to them with a televisable glibness and catered to their blank, TV-scoured brains by dismissing on their behalf the full canon of Western masterpieces, every one of them (except Wuthering Heights and the autobiography of Frederick Douglass) a relic of centuries of white male oppression, to be touched as gingerly as radioactive garbage." To undermine Brent's growing authority, Alf has an affair with Brent's wife. And in a bold move...
...exploration, the roster of pioneers is largely carved in stone, as it were, even though multiculturalism has taught us to view Christopher Columbus' voyages of discovery somewhat less ecstatically than previous American generations did. Yet in art or music or literature, every age tends to create its own canon of greatness. Fifty years ago, for example, Longfellow and Sir Walter Scott were adjudged model poets; they go virtually unread today...
...Harvard, the canon still seems to rule the roost--the best Spy could muster was a course on Welsh poetry...
...when Apple was doing nothing right in that market. The company had priced its best-selling equipment too expensively -- a Macintosh Plus at $2,842 in 1989 had a tag more than 60% higher than the U.S. price. Apple left marketing and distribution exclusively to a subsidiary of Canon, which saw little point in exerting itself on behalf of a lazy American client. Worst of all, Apple had not taught its computers to speak Japanese. In early 1989 only six software programs were available in Japanese, and a computer without software is about as useful as a phonograph without records...
Much of his greatest work, such as New York City's Guggenheim Museum, is definitively 20th century, yet doesn't fit easily into the standard modernist canon -- Wright's buildings are too craftsmanlike, too exuberant, too strange. Was he the greatest architect of the 19th century (as the young Philip Johnson twittingly called him) or the first great one of the 20th? Even as he was, years ahead of his time, denuding interiors and dreaming up schemes for mass- produced housing, he loathed the new abstract art from its beginning. Johnson planned to include Wright in his epochal 1932 Museum...