Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oration that followed, "Procrustes and the Culture Wars," Fadiman urged seniors "not to take sides in the culture wars...a peculiar development which takes culture and tries to squish it down to one line, stretching from right to left...
...political theory comes from the American founding, the Declaration and the Constitution, so it's that sort of peculiar American conservatism, which begins with the Revolution and continues with the Constitution that was quite new to the political experience of republics before ours," Mansfield says...
Puritanism produced nothing in the way of religious art except some tombstones and a few peculiar carvings, known as spirit stones, meant to repel devils. This wasn't because the Puritans hated art in principle--they didn't, as their portraiture, decorated furniture and other artifacts show--but because they disapproved of images of God and the prophets as "popish," too close to the idolatry they associated with the hated religion of Rome. They were, after all, the direct descendants of the iconoclasts who had destroyed nearly all the medieval art of England. The early New Englanders were people...
...take issue with the peculiar legal limbo in which naturalized immigrants find themselves. As a naturalized American citizen, I am bothered by clauses in our Constitution which preclude foreign-born citizens from running for president. It occurs to me that this precondition begs a seemingly self-evident, if seldom-posed question...
What does that mean? [laughs] In a peculiar way, based on what I see in terms of the play and the audience, to some degree that has reality. I don't know if it's a rejection of bourgeois society, it's just, they can't attain it. You know, it's really an underclass kind of situation. But there is an acceptance of what you see on the stage, which basically reflects the East Village. There is an incredible acceptance among people that you would never believe are accepting, in terms of all the different issues that are raised...