Word: saviorism
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...sins in public. But during a recent hearing at the suburban Maryland headquarters of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, an electric-utility boss named Bruce Kenyon did just that. Kenyon, a respected nuclear-industry veteran with a raspy voice and a cocksure style, last fall became president, CEO and designated savior of Northeast Utilities' nuclear division, which operates five commercial reactors in New England. "At the time I arrived, [Northeast] was as close to a dysfunctional organization as I have ever encountered," he told the NRC. "The fundamental problem was leadership...
...pundits who do make a bear stand don't last. Elaine Garzarelli, known for her 1987 warning, issued another late last summer but has already recanted. You can be sure that when this bull market finally ends there won't be anyone sounding an alarm. If you expect a savior, you're doomed...
...Kennedy would expose objectivism for what it really is--an angry and disingenuous pseudo-philosophy that indoctrinates the philosophically challenged, that has tried to appropriate reason and egoism as its own (gosh, that sounds absurd) by plagiarizing philosophical ideas that have been around for centuries, that parades as the savior of angry middle-class voters in search of a justification to be penny-pinching and concerned about no one in the world but themselves...
...outraged by the negative reaction of right-wing political leaders to the Jack Kemp-Al Gore debate as presented in your article "From Savior to Scapegoat" [NATION, Oct. 21]. It seems to me that any decent human being would commend a man like Kemp, who has the integrity to carry out a moral and honest election debate. It has been made quite evident in recent years that the general public does not wish to see mudslinging in U.S. presidential elections...
Moral reform may or may not come as Christians prefer--in the course of accepting Jesus as savior. But certainly Jesus said some things that could lead even an agnostic toward it. He asked us to doubt the moral basis of all hatreds--even of our enemies--and to doubt our frequent feelings of moral superiority, our illusion of clarity. ("You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye; and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.") Other religions also preach universal love and harsh self-scrutiny. Buddha said...