Word: canonized
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...fail us, publishing heir Forbes and his co-author argue. We failed capitalism by getting in its way. As if we're the ones who created the sleazy subprime mortgages and exotic derivatives (graded phony AAA by real capitalists) that blew up the system. It's the standard Forbes canon: government and taxes bad; rich people good. The pair dutifully round up free-market evangelists from Smith to Hayek to Friedman to support their apologia but fail to add any real insight. Capitalism works, all right, but not like this...
Burke's new assignment came with an impressive title: Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura - essentially chief justice of the Vatican's highest court. But the job, which involves hearing appeals of lower-canon-court rulings on issues like annulment requests, did not stop him from commenting on American politics. In January he charged that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops was responsible for Obama's victory because it overwhelmingly approved a document suggesting that Catholics could consider issues besides abortion when deciding how to vote. The conference's in-house news service, he added, failed...
Edited by rock ’n roll critic turned scholar Greil Marcus and Professor of African American Studies and English Werner Sollors, the book does not seek to create a new American literary canon, but instead it includes entries that cover a more diverse group of literary figures including John Winthrop, Diego Rivera, Chuck Berry, and Barack Obama...
...past 15 years since he quit his job as a probation officer and became a full-time poet. His output is marked by an impressive versatility; he has written for radio and TV, produced song lyrics for award-winning musical documentaries, and translated a gem of the medieval literary canon, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” into modern English verse. Primarily, though, he is a lyric poet, specializing in “lively, mysterious, revelatory” poems, according to English Professor James Simpson, who introduced Armitage at the Woodberry event.In recent years, though...
...immediately after, he is forced to wipe fresh blood from bullets so they can be fired. The effect of such shifts is not only urgency, but a kind of dark humor. Though it may be hard to decide where “Hurt Locker” fits into the canon of war cinema, it is the most gripping American attempt at the genre since “Saving Private Ryan” and easily the best film to date made on the current war in Iraq. A large part of its success lies in the fact that it doesn?...