Word: paradigm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope this campus' efforts to send relief to the people of Bosnia continue. I also hope that we look at this effort as a paradigm of communal activism and the sounding out of our community's moral voice...
...successful, I adore the process." The speaker is Mikhail Baryshnikov, the greatest dancer of his time, whose interpretations of the classical male roles set the standard for the 1970s and '80s, and probably for a long time to come. In those years the notion of this paradigm of nobility mixing it up with modern dance seemed absurd. But a closer look at the record reveals he was already seeking out alliances with modern choreographers. When Twyla Tharp created Push Comes to Shove for him in 1976, she revealed a whole new Misha: rueful, droll, an outsider trying...
Good-old-days virtue . . . imminent decay. But that may be a misleading distinction -- an artificial paradigm that at its worst produces false conflicts, as between a kind of droolingly permissive liberalism and a family- values fanaticism...
...when a woman questions whether acts as simple as putting on lipstick or shaving her legs are celebrations of her own femininity/sexuality or proof of her subservience to the dominant male paradigm, it is understandable that these women were torn about their decision...
Applying the paradigm of choice to the problem of abortion is a public relations coup for the movement--as well as a huge misapplication of the democratic principle of choice...