Word: canonization
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...profound. Some other time we'll munch on the reasons that critics, nestled in the comfort of their intellectual splendor, overvalue works that say life stinks. For now, we'll note that any serious film with a bright or dewy eye runs the risk of exile from the received canon of dark and Sturmy cinema...
Unlike fellow former British colonies India and Pakistan, Malaysia has yet to produce a Vikram Seth or an Arundhati Roy. There has been no writer of international stature, or even a literary canon?in Bahasa or English?that one could call Malaysian. The Rice Mother, a delicious fictional cocktail packed with Malaysian flavors, may finally put the country on the global publishing map. Plainly, debut novelist Rani Manicka has studied other Asia-themed best sellers such as Wild Swans and The Joy Luck Club to produce a family saga centered on the tempestuous relationships between mothers and their children...
...refused to be drawn into discussions of how he would decide cases that would come before him or to criticize Supreme Court opinions that, as a lower court judge, he would be bound faithfully to apply. The Times has also reported that the American Bar Association has a canon of judicial ethics that condemns as unethical just such statements by judges running for judicial office. And in a recent Supreme Court case, several Justices have stated that the same ethical constraints should apply to judicial nominees. Indeed both Justices Scalia and Frankfurter, among others, have sternly declined to answer those...
...spot-on; the ever-present sense of doom hovers cloudlike throughout, as befits a novel of war. Roberts manages to depict the war realistically and beautifully, reminding us that actions have consequences, that war and death are often far less glorious than propaganda would have them be. The official canon largely skirted the implications of war, preferring a simplified tale of good vs. evil. Roberts refuses to shy from describing the realities, from reluctant soldiers and simple pragmatists to heroes wracked with self-doubt and pity...
...Baker, a psychologist who directs the Life Enhancement Program at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Ariz., supervised a survey of the mental-health canon. His team found 54,000 studies on depression and only 415--less than 1%--on happiness. Even today, Baker asserts, "the medical establishment continues to pooh-pooh happiness, because there's no money...