Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After the Deluge" serves as the first show in a very long while to confront what one might call the flip side of American postwar supremacy. Everyone knows that after 1945 the center of world art moved to New York. Paris no longer "mattered" much. Once this dogma took hold, Americans lost interest in most new European art; the New York School pushed it off the radar screen, and it apparently lost the mandate of art history. The new, swelling museum culture in the U.S. tended to ignore it. In the early 1950s the prewar masters remained-Picasso, Matisse, Braque...
...deliberation. He has no deepcommitment to any principle, but merely wants aresult, and it doesn't seem to much matter whatthat result is: "We cannot expect there to be asingle stable solution...but rather a variety ofuncertain and temporary equilibria, with theconversation-stoppers tending to accrete pearlylayers of supporting dogma which cannot themselveswithstand extended scrutiny but do actually serveon occasion, blessedly, to deflect and terminateconsideration." In that list ofconversation-stoppers, utilitarian calculus andKantian imperatives are equally valid...
Perhaps it is Professor Jardine who best captures the essence of Rousseau's Dog. "Who would have ever thought that an understanding of the history of women's education in the West required an understanding of Rousseau's dog? Jennifer Kennedy has taught old dogma some new tricks." Thanks to Noab Feldman...
FATHER GREG (LINUS ROACHE), the young priest at a Catholic parish in Liverpool, is handsome, theologically conservative--and gay. His boss, Father Matthew (Tom Wilkinson), spouts socialist dogma and has sex with his live-in housekeeper. The husband of the parish's hardest-working volunteer forces sex on their daughter. The local bishop is a ward heeler in a cassock...
...gets his country up and running again, he will use capitalist tools to survive. ``But,'' he insists, ``without renouncing our ideals!'' The way out is proving a difficult road for Castro's most loyal minions, since it requires discarding--temporarily, they assure themselves--several pillars of Cuba's socialist dogma. The old Central Planning Board, which piloted the state-directed economy, has been abolished. Last year the government claims to have cut the budget deficit 72% by slashing its bloated work force, eliminating dozens of subsidies and imposing price increases on such things as cigars, alcohol and electricity. These measures...