Word: paradigm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nonsense classicism to what could have been just another tabloid horror story. And Schoelen is the most appealing teen in recent movies. But the triumph is O'Quinn's. With his a- mite-too-wide smile, unctuous pieties and neatly calibrated spasms of rage, he creates a paradigm head of the postnuclear family: an evangelist of father love and blood lust...
Gary Edwards, director of the Washington-based Ethics Resource Center say that part of the problem lies in the culture itself, which they say bolsters certain types of unethical behavior. "There is a paradigm of unethical conduct in large organizations," he says. "You can read it off the culture of the organization...
Kopit's play is almost a paradigm of the burgeoning genre of "Nuclear Lit." The brain-deadening pattern lack much variation, having been set in stone in Strangelove: introduce an outsider to what one journalist termed "the subterranean world of the bomb," then lead him or her step by step through the strategy and institutions of strategic nuclear...
Perhaps a paradigm for Bok's 15th year is the outrageous dictum issued last week by Samuel C. Butler, president of the Board of Overseers, Harvard's alumni-elect governing body. In the notorious tradition of his immediate predecessor, Joan T. Bok, Butler has attempted to cut the board off from the community at large and restrict the free speech of its members. The New York lawyer issued a letter that warned overseers against allowing "leaks" to members of the press, recommending that any media inquiry receive "a no comment, followed by a polite goodbye." Though President...
...Hunthausen case, a paradigm of such public controversy, erupted in September when the Archbishop revealed that Rome had quietly taken away his control over various aspects of doctrine and discipline and handed it to Seattle's newly named auxiliary bishop, Donald Wuerl, a loyal conservative. Hunthausen's revelation provoked public squabbling among the bishops and demands by liberals that the U.S. hierarchy fight back...