Word: shibboleths
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...first target of their attack was a long-standing conservative shibboleth--school busing to achieve racial balance or alleviate segregation. The Senate attached "riders" to several appropriations bills that would prohibit the Justice Department from suing local school districts in an effort to balance school racially through busing programs...
...fixture as before: first person singularities from the prominent (Miss U.S.A., Ted Turner, Joan Crawford, Arnold Schwarzenegger), the recognizable (Baseball Maverick Bill Veeck, Novelist Jill Robinson, Rolling Stone Publisher Jann Wenner) and the totally obscure. All of them are highly individual, all discuss some aspect of that worn shibboleth, the American Dream. As they talk, platitudes give way to testimony, and the vision becomes a document...
...around 2%. Increases of more than 2,000% in Government spending on health and housing in the past decade, declares Nunn, show that the pattern of inflation fits "the real increase in nondefense spending." Observes Oregon Senator Bob Packwood: "Let's lay to rest the shibboleth that we have been chipping away at human resources spending on behalf of defense...
...Arts Project--its achievements, its triumphs, and particularly its non-elitism--is especially important in light of a shibboleth long popular in certain critical circles. Elitism is held indispensable to artistic accomplishment; as John Simon recently wrote, "there can be neither true culture nor true art without elitism...
...been under more or less continual attack from the Christian left for a century and a half. Why the flap then? For one thing, Britain remains fairly conservative. As the book's preface puts it, belief in Christ's incarnation has "long been something of a shibboleth" in England. Besides that, one contributor, Oxford Theologian Maurice Wiles, was for five years chairman of the Church of England's influential Doctrine Commission...