Word: mantras
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...outlook could be a mantra for today's postideological China. What is in some ways most striking about the country, as new middle-class consumers flock to shopping malls, is how normal it feels. Although billboards celebrating the glory of the Communist Party can still be found in Beijing, they tend to elicit derision instead of deference--and even Chairman Mao's visage has morphed into a Pop-art commodity in the capital's avant-garde galleries...
...on Oprah last week, he behaved as if he were 14. Ostensibly on the show to plug his forthcoming movie, Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, Tom Cruise tried to count the ways his professed passion for actress Katie Holmes had changed his life. He chanted the mantra "I'm in love" as if his soul could speak only in an Oscar Hammerstein lyric. A cheerleader for Team Katie, he bounded from his seat, genuflected before his startled host, jumped on the couch and pumped his fist, NBA-finals style. "I don't know what happened...
...Ministry of Health, the program is designed to make healthy eating part of children's everyday lives - at school and at home. Nutritionists teach children from the age of 3 what, and how much, they should eat, and also train other teachers who can then incorporate the healthy-eating mantra into their classes. School lunches now replace unhealthy foods like French fries with vegetables such as beans. Children in the district also dig into a healthy preschool breakfast buffet intended to supplement the breakfast they ate - or sometimes did not eat - at home. The results have been spectacular. The number...
Third: “Energizing the base.” Oh, how this dream shall never die. Unfortunately, it has become a quadrennial mantra for defeated Democrats. If only we had fully excited “the base”—by which proponents mean liberals and minorities, or the proletariat masses that never vote—the Democrats would have won. Well, no. Elaine Kamarck’s “The Politics of Evasion” about 1988 showed the same result as Mark Penn’s “Analysis of Voting Patterns?...
...attention being lavished on revolutionaries like Daniel Libeskind, there isn't still a bias toward tall boxes I'm envious of what adventuresome architects are achieving today with their unconventional, unearthly designs [April 25]. When I studied architecture in the early '70s, "Form follows function" was the mantra, and I was criticized for advocating any concept that dared to stray from the shoe-box straitjacket. But times have changed. Besides, when you are famous and in demand, people will readily embrace even your weirdest creations. Anyway, I doff my hat to architects like Daniel Libeskind who enrich our design vocabulary...