Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clearly, AIA considers students blind to bias and in danger of swallowing dogma. This premise, a rather pessimistic assessment, throws AIA into a contradictory position. In its inquisition of inaccurate professors, AIA relies on tips called in by student "reporters". AIA places sufficient confidence in its student reports to use them as a basis for questioning professors on their abilities and for publishing indictments. Apparently, these super-student "reporters" see through what is for others an impenetrable haze of liberal bias...
...Strategies of Lying," Umberto Eco performs a structural operation to demonstrate how Nixon's image-making speeches were variations on the same mythic elements composing Little Red Riding Hood. Michel de Certeau's "The Jabbering, of Social Life" reduces politics to a social organ polluting the environment with mindless dogma. The heralding of the Reagan Age is also blamed on a carefully-devised strategy of ignorance that is not without its humor...
Educators have been slow to ask for a better balance in how such controversial topics are handled or to insist on better writing throughout the books. In 1974 the California board decided that discussion of creation dogma belonged in social studies classes, not science classes. But it was not until 1983 that the state finally drafted specific guidelines that require full text treatment of natural selection, mutation and adaptation. In Texas, third behind California and New York in text purchases (5.5%), the state school board last year reversed a policy that evolution be taught as only one of several theories...
...poorest countries in the world. As a Vietnamese economist explains, the decade of the 1960s was "a fabulous time for development in the Third World. Here, it was the worst time of the war." Energy is scarce. The country's infrastructure is decrepit. Ten years of inflexible Communist dogma have only hobbled the economy further. Four out of five workers farm, but the ancient techniques are pathetically underproductive. By 1979, famine was a possibility, as disastrous typhoons and war with China hit simultaneously. The country now depends on Moscow for $2 billion a year, an amount equal to more than...
...that Americans have now given Hollein his honorific due. The U.S., he says, has influenced his architecture most of all. He arrived at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1958 but found its "Prussian dogma" of modernism uncongenial. Breaking free, Hollein bought a Chevy and drove, covering 50,000 miles in a year and a half, just when Nabokov's Humbert Humbert and Kerouac's romantics were on the road. Recalls Hollein: "It was just incredible to me the space you have here, the sense of freedom." Seeing the West provoked a kind of epiphany. A generation ago, before pizazz...