Word: paradigmed
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...there really been a paradigm shift? Despite the literal truth explained by Heraclitus, there are some constants no fiery fanaticism can destroy, some issues and conflicts that have not been budged an inch by the devastating events of that sunny Tuesday morning. So what will never be the same again, what has barely blinked...
...Ivies pride and follow Yale’s lead on any issue. And considering the stinginess of Harvard vacations of the whole (almost three weeks for winter break is a wonderful accident this year), I wouldn’t hold my breath for such a sudden paradigm shift. But as a global university representing every state and practically every country, the University must acknowledge the travel realities of its student body and show a little effort at accommodation...
...Paradigm said Bush stole the election in Florida. In the New Paradigm, even many Democrats are grateful that Al Gore isn't sitting in the White House. In this sense, the N.P. is nonpartisan, though it tilts toward the conservative (when someone wants to blow up your country, you naturally want to conserve it). Bill Clinton is a relic of another time, like the 1920s party boy F. Scott Fitzgerald stranded in the landscape of the Great Depression...
...matter of pulling people over merely for Driving While Black. After Sept. 11, I was a guest on an African-American radio show in Detroit. Almost every one of the callers wanted to ship Detroit's entire Muslim community back to the countries they came from. The New Paradigm goes in for abusive political incorrectness that would have been censured under the Old Paradigm. The New Paradigm is not always a nice one. Wartime encourages a certain bracing ruthlessness. But be careful when the Constitution begins to seem like the Old Paradigm...
...truth, the New Paradigm is the way Americans are sharpening their wits in the presence of great danger. It is the reinstatement of an older model--a pre-Vietnam perspective. You hear that reinstated moral design in Bush's quaint--and artful--use of the word evil. He speaks of "the evil ones" and "the evildoers"--and at first it sounds like the vocabulary of professional wrestling. But Bush means to tell the evil ones that he is as willing as they are to deal in absolutes. The Old Paradigm dismisses the concept of evil as being an ignorant demonization...