Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Freud and his largely male successors, healthy emotional growth is marked by a striving for autonomy. People who deviate from that pattern, as many women do, have often been considered immature, even psychologically ill -- victims, perhaps, of dependent personality disorder. But critics charge that that orthodox psychological dogma is based almost exclusively on studies of men. Ignoring women distorted the picture. The male voice, in effect, became the human voice...
...concept of deregulation, or "new federalism," has been a central tenet of Republican dogma since the early 1980s. Under the Reagan Administration, spending at the local level began to take precedence over "top-down" allocation of resources from the federal level...
Hair of the Dogma...
This is not standard dramatic fare; it actually seems more like a textual game, that while clever, is not exactly absorbing. If you like to tear into the theoretical underpinnings of theater, Hair of Dogma is remarkably engaging...
...Hair of the Dogma keeps the play from sinking into tedium. The ancillary characters certainly enliven it: the professor rants about the nature of atomic particles and the propensity for human beings to turn into bicycles, and the Irish lad spins yarns of the miraculous healing powers of his brother...