Word: canonically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very conservative, I am glad to be out of there," he says. "I will not miss being stereotyped as a left-wing activist hellbent on destroying the canon of Western literature...
...latest addition to the maleness canon is Sam Keen's Fire in the Belly (Bantam; 272 pages; $19.95), which is beginning what may be a long residence on the best-seller lists. While Bly provides the pragmatic poetry of contemporary manhood, Keen offers some poetic pragmatism. His book does not so much compete with Bly's as complement it, offering the yin of personal experience to Bly's yang of mythological precedent...
...many others. The Episcopal convention will debate a conservative counterblast from 60 bishops, led by William Frey, dean of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambler, Pa. The proposal would amend canon law to place all clergy "under the obligation to abstain from sexual relations outside of Holy Matrimony." Observes Frey: "Many of us believe that the sexual revolution has run its course, leaving in its wake thousands of broken marriages, a sharp rise in teenage pregnancies, millions of convenience- motivated abortions, a multibillion-dollar pornography industry and a mushrooming AIDS epidemic. What could be better news than the proclamation...
...critics charge that the group is fighting a nonexistant war. They say that the canon is dynamic, and that to reflect the changing face of American culture and scholarship, it must include women and minority voices...
...There is no such thing as a western canon," says Barbara E. Johnson, who this year chaired Harvard's Atro-Am Department, and will next year head its Women's Studies Department. "The canon is alive. It changes over time. You don't have to read books because your elders have read them, but because you find them interesting...