Word: paradigm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guide through this gallery of horrors, Newman tries to keep everybody's spirits up with wisecracks. His chapter headings give the flavor: "A One-Way Streetcar Named Detente," "Ize Front," "Paradigm Lost." But the charm of persistent jokiness begins to pall long before the tour is over...
Sister Courage, another monthly that is oriented toward women, is, politically speaking, probably the best Boston-area paper of the three mentioned here. As it enters its second year of publication, Sister Courage, like Equal Times and Sojourner, still isn't a paradigm of skillful, articulate writing, but it concentrates on women's continuing struggle for equality, rather than on helping its readers find comfortable jobs. It, too, however, tends to see change for women as originating only through the efforts of women's movement rather than through a more general effort at reconstructing society...
...psychological fact, that unfortunately all of us grow up so completely embedded in the prevailing paradigm of reality that we internalize it to the point where it seems the only possible and natural one. (Indeed, isn't that what it means to enter the fellowship of educated men and women--that one has at last learned to stop asking certain kinds of questions...
Sadly, the repentant friendly witness, Edward Dmytryk, can be watched falling apart; he presents an outlay of all the conflicts playing inside the weak paradigm. Dmytryk stood with Ten, went to jail, came out and gave names; he was subsequently hired by Hollywood's reigning young liberal Stanley Kramer. Now, his pictures and career faded, all he does is apologize and explain with a slight tremble. Trumbo's pictures were no better than Dmytryk's for the most part (his dialogue stank) but he had his integrity and his anger to clutch to, and it kept...
...usual image-burnishing salute to the sport but a realistic study of football as a way of making a living (8 p.m. E.D.T.). It's Tough to Make It in This League neither glosses over the problems players face nor flogs the cliché of football as a paradigm of society's ills...