Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It is a right that in the course of just 15 years many Americans have come to regard as no less inalienable than freedom of religion or expression. It is a right exercised by 1.6 million U.S. women each year -- some rich, some poor; some barely out of childhood, some...
School's out, and the first grade exits for the day in double file, with six- year-old Tina somewhere in the middle. Slack-armed, she drifts sideways toward her foster mother across the rushing current of her classmates. Her eyes are scrunched up woefully in the universal expression of...
LAW AND ORDER: this term is used to stress the need for greater protection against violent crime. The expression was made popular by ex-President Richard M. Nixon and resurrected by Vice President George Bush. Nixon used the term "law and order" to create fear of race riots, rather than...
MAINSTREAM VALUES: this is an expression used to conjure nostalgic images of the nuclear family and a dog living in a house with a white picket fence down the street from the Cleavers and the Nelsons. These are also the values of the wealthy, protestant, heterosexual white males who are...
The chief legal precedent governing religious displays on public property comes from a 1984 Supreme Court case, Lynch v. Donnelly, which ruled that the city of Pawtucket, R.I. could retain a holiday display containing Christmas symbols because it included sufficient room for secular expression.