Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...critical point, however, is that Revolution Books has a right to operate. While I do not frequent the store, other people do, and they are glad it is there. The store makes a profit, and consumers come out happy with their newly-bought radical dogma...
...store did not meet a demand for a good (radical dogma), it would not make a profit and would be forced to shut down. If Revolution Books tried to expand to every corner in Cambridge, there would be a surplus of radical dogma and the stores would close until the optimal level of shops existed (presumably...
...swirl of the '20s; the grinding despair of the Great Depression, which led so many to question capitalism itself--only served to highlight the broad, deep social stability born of American affluence. But the 1960s brought one great revolution in American life--civil rights--and many smaller ones. Religious dogma, journalistic objectivity, middle-class morality--all came under assault as the war sputtered on. Pleasures were now political statements; student opposition to the war turned into an assault on Amerika. By 1970, when four students at Kent State were killed by National Guardsmen, Abbie Hoffman's "revolution for the hell...
...marginalize non-Christians by rewriting history and pretending that our nation's forefathers were devout Christians, or that our government was somehow founded upon Christianity. We grow concerned when freedom of belief is threatened, or when vociferous religious extremists cry for policies based on ultra-conservative religious dogma and their own narrow conception of morality...
...lexicon of the '90s, "pragmatism" has emerged as one of the most popular words. As the conventional wisdom has it, ideology is out and pragmatism is in. Radicalism has been replaced by realism, dogma by day-to-day action. Pragmatism has been used to explain everything from economic reforms in Eastern Europe and communist China and the shift of power away from Marxist apparatchiks, to the 1992 victory of Bill Clinton and the centrist tilt of the "New Democrats...