Word: dualisms
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...Oriental" was now a racist term and that I would heretofore be known as "Asian." College brought the all-important addition of "American," so that I am now "Asian-American," or, if one really wants to split hairs, "Asian American" (the hyphen, to some, indicates an undesirable hierarchy or dualism...
...doctrinal grounds, conservative theologian Donald G. Bloesch of the University of Dubuque, Iowa, rejects many neologisms that feminists use to avoid the traditional Father, Son and Holy Spirit. "Heavenly Parent," for instance, makes God more a world soul than a Person, he contends, while "Father and Mother" smacks of dualism or paganism. God includes masculinity and femininity within himself without having sexual gender, Bloesch explains, but "the God of the Bible is not androgynous." San Francisco Jesuit Joseph Fessio, editor of Catholic World Report, is more direct. "If you change the language of the liturgy and prayers and feminize...
...Junior plays with his building blocks, he can now learn the ABC's of post-modernism. A is for Aporia, B is for Barthes, C is for Chiasma. D, the most important letter in the alphabet of the nouveau ecriture, is for Dualism, Deconstruction, Dissemination, and of course, Derrida. And when Junior begins to put letters together to form a word (which we now call a logos), he has a whole new set of challenges ahead of him. For difference is now spelled differance, while the prefix 'meta' opens infinite new realms of meaning...
...forget con-junctions. The intertextual Grammer Rock must now instruct children in the mysterious 'either/or and simultaneously neither/nor.' Never fear that traditional values need fall by the wayside: discipline is still important, as every mother who has ever washed out her child's mouth with soap for saying "dualism" or "positivism" in the house can tell...
...SAME DUALISM extends into the two characters. While Bergonzi is energetic, bouncing at times along with the music of the three-piece band, Keraga is reserved, reading several of his first Race deadpan from a script that WOMAN gives him. Keraga gets a chance to display his ability, oddly enough, in a scene in which MAN cannot express himself. He deftly executes the complicated task of communicating a communications breakdown. Keraga's rather emotionless stutterings raise the unsettling possibility that MAN does not care whether he is being understood...