Word: modeled
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...latest book, Walzer endorses a model of social criticism embodied in the second strategy, criticism which recalls to the roommate a past in which she herself was a participant. As Walzer sees it, you are in fact asking her to interpret a story of which both of you are a part; or, more precisely, you are asking that she accept your interpretation or offer a better one. As Walzer puts it, "the experience of moral argument is best understood in the interpretive mode...
...textual interpretation of a book both the critic and criticized party have read is not totally convincing. If Walzer's analogy were complete, for example, we would have to write or co-author as well as read all those books we criticize. Hermeneutics, to give Walzer's interpretive model its formal title, is a fascinating philosophical strategy with a massive history in European thought. But its application to political criticism needs more analysis and justification than has yet been generated...
First, the feminists. Betty Friedan, for one, thought the very concept of the trial sullied by its subservience to "masculine" social theory: "This whole thing has to be taken out of the realm of contract law that is based on the male model of corporate stocks and commodity trading," she told The New York Times."If the woman wants to keep the baby, you would have to assume that the claim of the woman who has carried the baby for nine months should take precedence over the claim of the man who has donated one of his 50 million sperm...
...general consensus on defense policy. In foreign policy, broadly speaking, the situation is the same. The principles that were put forward by President de Gaulle are now accepted by everybody -- except the Communists. But cohabitation is not a logical system and not one to be adopted as a model. Since we are democrats, we have to live with it, but I hope cohabitation will end with the election ((in 1988)) of a President belonging to the majority...
Today Ozawa uneasily straddles both worlds. The exemplar of success in classical music, in Japan he is a role model to thousands of young performers. Yet his exalted position is resented by many; to them, he is still the nail that sticks out. In the West, old questions about how deeply he understands music continue to dog him. His detractors write of his "blank interpretations," and indeed Ozawa has always been more effective in Strauss and Stravinsky showpieces than in Beethoven symphonies. Music that demands depth rather than flash taxes him. He has taken up opera in Europe...