Word: genericism
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...problem for the Administration has been how to change tack without appearing to double back on the Reaganaut course. After repeated nudges from his friends in business, Bush groped his way toward a middle-ground policy in which the government would join with private industry to help "precompetitive, generic technology." By restricting federal financing to investment in broad technologies in the early stages of development, rather than products ready for commercial exploitation, the White House insists that it can refrain from "picking winners and losers" among specific companies...
Shanty's wedding music stands out as a luminous love song, but overall the oratorio is rambling and generic; there is nothing to match the economy and effect of such "classical" McCartney tunes as Eleanor Rigby and Yesterday, and you certainly can't dance to it. Indeed, the piece emerges as a curious cross between Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and the Who's Quadrophenia, but it lacks either the former's ecstatic fervor or the latter's nose-in-the-dirt realism. One waits in vain for the real McCartney to loosen his tie and do something...
...religious communities, atheist and agnostic families are often afraid to protest. "In many areas no one complains when the church starts creeping into public life," says Jay Jacobson, executive director of the Arkansas affiliate of the ACLU. "We get calls at the beginning of the school year against a generic prayer at football games, but no one is willing to file an official complaint. The Bill of Rights is not self-enforcing...
Under these terms, I agree no prayer is better than such a prayer. All prayer worthy of the name is specific--from someone to someone about someone or something. Generic prayer is not prayer but platitude, and we need no more of these...
Stark reality and poignant beauty are not often enough seen in the daily paper comics. Mort "Beetle Bailey" Walker, the antithesis of the new cartoonists, once said that cartoonists can just barely draw and just barely tell jokes. This may be true in the generic land of "Beetle Bailey," but alternative cartoonists are nothing if not artists...