Word: colloquy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this area the faithful seem to be leading their churches, instead of following, opening an unusually lively colloquy. It is the nature of computer networks that they tend to throw together people who would otherwise never meet--never mind discuss something as intimate as one's personal beliefs. Thus on the Internet, Catholics suddenly find themselves keyboard-to-keyboard with devil worshippers, Jews modem-to-modem with Islamic fundamentalists. "I put the [Reverend Moon's] Unification Church right up there with the wonderful world of Mormon," someone with the screen name Marzioli posted recently on a Usenet newsgroup. The next...
Three weeks ago, a story we published put us in the middle of a controversy. It was hardly the first time that has happened, but this instance suggested an opportunity for more than the usual colloquy in the Letters pages. So for this occasion and others like it, we have revived a section of TIME called Forum, in which we present a range of informed and eloquent opinions on pressing issues of the moment. This TIME Forum, which begins on page 28, concerns our cover subject this week -- the Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan...
...views successful leadership as a process of persuasion rather than preachment. Throughout the campaign, Clinton scored repeatedly by engaging voters in a dialogue that demonstrated his knowledge of public issues while at the same time convincing his audiences that he heard their concerns and was actually learning from the colloquy...
...decide on the artistic worth of one group over another? Is the Glee Club more deserving than a reading of Anna Akhmatova's poetry? Will the Undergraduate Council's next comedian be censored by a prudish colloquy of students and administrators? Calling for a distribution of space on the basis of artistic merit, a proposal only Senator Helms could love, has no place in a liberal university...