Word: shibboleths
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...days when musical taste was the shibboleth that marked the good from the bad, for days when I could wield “mainstream” as a snarling epithet, for days when I didn’t know better and didn’t know so much good music existed and didn’t know I would never ever be able to listen to everything because time marched on inexorably. When I imagined there was a canon of musical great works that was fixed, not one that kept growing (and that will keep growing). When I wrote down...
...bill authorizing a partial lifting of trade sanctions against Cuba from reaching the House floor. Embarrassing Lott is the fact that the measure was initiated by Washington Republican representative George Nethercutt; even more embarrassing is that despite the efforts by GOP congressional leaders to maintain the Cuba-embargo shibboleth on the Hill, Nethercutt and his allies - many of whom are Republicans - may have enough support to force a vote...
...either being totally insincere or has fallen victim to a modern cliche, the clown who's laughing on the outside and thinking on the inside. In the case of Shandling, though, the sentiments seem both authentic and well considered. It's not always true, as the shibboleth holds, that the best comedy grows out of characters, not jokes, but the characters on Larry Sanders really are what make it so funny. The one-liners, the self-mocking guest stars, the setting so rich in hypocrisy--these would have been enough to make Larry Sanders a very clever show; the human...
Opponents of Title IX are worried that the expansion of women's sports will cause the elimination of men's teams. But that is a shibboleth that can be chased away with better fiscal management. College sports administrators like to point out that there are actually three genders: male, female and football. Maintaining a football team for 12 weekends of entertainment is an astoundingly expensive proposition for Division I-A schools, especially when Nebraska insists on dressing 140 players. If the Green Bay Packers can get by with 45 players, why can't colleges play with, say, 60? According...
Rubin's priority is seeking a balanced federal budget by 2002. To reach that goal, the White House must compromise with Congress while protecting such Clinton promises as education incentives and measures to safeguard the environment. Along the way, Rubin will have to fend off the Republican opposition's shibboleth: a proposed constitutional amendment to mandate a permanently balanced budget. The idea, which enjoys support among a smattering of Democrats, is opposed not only by Rubin and the President but also by Greenspan. They point to the rigidity of the notion in the event of an economic downturn, and argue...