Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japan's eight-year hold on first place. It figures, because-not although, because-so many sages had been assuring us so recently that we could never meet Japanese competition unless we turned ourselves into imitation Japanese. Connoisseurs of economic nonsense will be surprised only that this bit of dogma was refuted so quickly. It usually takes somewhat longer for a universal belief about the economy to be exposed as false and to mutate into another that, alas, will usually be just as wrong...
Among the Italians, the best-known candidate is Carlo Maria Martini. As the Archbishop of Milan, Europe's largest archdiocese, Martini, 67, is promoted by moderate Catholics as the single most papabile prince of the Roman Catholic Church. Suave, brilliant, cosmopolitan, he hews closely to John Paul's dogma but is reputed to harbor less conservative inclinations. Some are convinced Martini could spur reform on issues such as celibacy and women priests. On contraception, he once said, "I believe the Church's teaching has not been expressed so well . . . I'm confident we will find some formula to state things...
...adherents of this fashion-able dogma simply dismiss reasonable arguments made by conservatives such as Yale Classics scholar Donald Kagan...
Harvard leftists can complain all they want about conservatives. They can label them "offensive" and call for action to be taken against them. But many things we consider offensive here at Harvard are not offensive to mainstream America. And many things that Harvard students take for dogma are offensive beyond the ivy-covered walls...
...wonders with the men's hockey team. The Crimson ought to be dogma better, but they aren...