Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan, it seems, can have his election coalition or his economic program, but he cannot have both. The president shows no signs of abandoning his economic dogma, however. Just last week, he hailed the "private sector" as "that tough little tug that can pull our ship of state off the shoals and out into open water." Unless GOP congressional leaders can change the president's mind--or start rowing fast--a resurgence of Democratic strength at the polls is probable in both 1982 and 1984. Democratic programs would likely include some form of direct capital allocation to ailing industries...
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains K All for You. Christopher Durang's damnably funny satire on Roman Catholic education, faith and dogma. Elizabeth Franz is a holy terror as a schoolteacher...
...ignore or even contradict fundamental principles and values that were preached and acted upon by Jesus of Nazareth." You have your Inquisition and your Crusades and your indulgence-selling and your papal imperialism, and in some ways you have a pretty grim picture. But from that legacy of dogma and rigidity, new ideas are emerging...
Durang shakes a stormier fist at God in Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You. Those who do not find the play abominably blasphemous (and some may) will find it damnably funny. The parody, this time, is of Roman Catholic elementary school education and, by extension. Catholic faith, dogma and practice...
That, stripped of the nudging and stylistic razzle-dazzle that pad the book to length, is the gist of Wolfe's argument. It looks familiar, as travesties must. The dismantling of modernist dogma has been going on for ten years or more; it has been a prime staple of architectural criticism and practice throughout one of the most intense periods of building in American history. Everyone, including Wolfe, knows something about it. But he brings nothing new to the argument except, perhaps, a kind of supercilious rancor and a free-floating hostility toward the intelligentsia. The late bird...