Word: ism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crucial question was whether the Institutewould confine itself to women's and gender studiesor would examine a wide range of disciplines, withan important "focus" on women. Radcliffe wanted"women, gender and society" (a favoriteWilson-ism) to be included in the statement'sfirst sentence. Harvard insisted on emphasizing"advanced work in the academic disciplines,professions, or creative arts" first...
...Indeed, the three points of his abstractly designed universe (he is given to drawing incomprehensible diagrams on any available surface) reflect that people who used to be impelled to make things by the old impulses of social and economic interests now must add the environment. "But not as an ism," he cautions, not as an extreme. "What we're trying to do is balance ecology, equity and economy...
...increasingly looking for an all-purpose pop culture explanation for why everything has turned out so lousily. As explanations go, this sort of thing makes a superficial kind of sense, and it's more fun to play around with than Marxism or Freudianism or just about any other ism." Ick. Somebody, please, turn off the critics and pass the popcorn...
Ruhollah Khomeini--his given name means "inspired of God"--was born to a family of Shi'ite scholars in a village near Tehran in 1902. Shi'ism, a minority sect in Islam, is Iran's official religion. Like his father, he moved from theological studies to a career as an Islamic jurist. Throughout his life, he was acclaimed for the depth of his religious learning...
...Najaf, Khomeini also shaped a revolutionary doctrine. Shi'ism, historically, demanded of the state only that it keep itself open to clerical guidance. Though relations between clergy and state were often tense, they were rarely belligerent. Khomeini, condemning the Shah's servility to America and his secularism, deviated from accepted tenets to attack the regime's legitimacy, calling for a clerical state, which had no Islamic precedent...