Word: norms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left enough time for a thorough and exhaustive search by President Bok for a replacement. Yet the timing also raises a thorny question: what will happen to the Law School for the next year and a half. Power struggles and coalition voting have already been the norm and will surely intensify under a lame duck dean. The Law School needs direction soon, and Vorenberg's delayed resignation until next year will only make answers harder to find...
...Houseguest, Berger's 15th novel, picks up some of the pieces scattered by the explosive anarchy of his Neighbors (1980). Once again, an apparently stable domestic setting warps and buckles into chaos, and kindred characters struggle to adjust to a world in which the outrageous has suddenly become the norm...
While Sheldrake acknowledges that systems are flexible, he never once mentions that a set of genes, organisms or cultures can behave differently in different environments; the term "norm of reaction" (the typical biological term) does not appear in the text. And this from an expert on plant development, where classic examples of this sort occur. His decision to attribute most quotes in endnotes seems suspicious. A honest approach would have presented anomalies and evidence first (a few psychological experiments, introduced later seem to support him), rather than trying to seduce readers into believing that the theories of science and society...
...past Lee has expressed his dissatisfaction with the Greeks, and he used his movie as a vehicle to defame them. Problems do exist in Black Greek organizations--such as undue violence and the lack of community outreach work--but these problems are the exception, rather than the norm. Unfortunately a movie-goer with no knowledge of these organizations may be inclined to take Lee's word as gospel...
...beatings by Israeli soldiers of Palestinians whose protesting does not justify such treatment. Since you hear about this every day, you conclude that it is the norm and that Israelis in general are behaving immorally. I see more. I see Israeli TV reporters appoaching on-duty soldiers, who say that the army should not be in the West Bank and Gaza at all; I see passionate outrage by soldiers and civilians in response to reports of brutality; I see the growth in recent weeks of both secular and religious peace movements. And I see a growing weariness among many Israelis...