Word: paradigm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...necessary examination of the nature and position of the self in modern society. The new self is now returning to a more firmly grounded social activism, or so Ferguson sees it. True, there is no national movement and little shared approach, but that is part of the old "political paradigm" of mass action and confrontation...
...Rowe, McAdoo and Wicks are gone, and the winters of the Celtics' discontent have ended. The arrival of a new Bird (Larry, the No. 2 college scorer for the previous two years and the paradigm of a team player) and the revival of the old Cowens (Dave, the fiery redhead whose intensity inspires others) have combined to rejuvenate a franchise that had lost touch with its legacy. Boston is winning again, and winning the Celtic...
...lamp she holds is pivoted so that light could be directed as her mistress might wish. Smoke from the candle within passes up through the girl's sleeve and on into the hollow body, so no soot would dirty the room. The girl's face is a paradigm of portraiture, her gaze at once attentive and suitably deferential...
...issue must not be made a crusade; however, there are ominous portents. The 'uniqueness' of the Christian and the Islamic revelations is a paradigm for conflict. The archetypal struggle between the forces of good and evil unfolds in the eschatological messianism of both traditions. In the present situation, the mixture of oil and archetypal consciousness is so inflammatory that it must be handled with utmost caution. George Thierry de Dreyer