Word: worldview
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...stable and peaceful society. That is why we require students to take courses in literature and moral reasoning. If, by its actions as an employer, the University embodies narrow rationality and a preoccupation with the “bottom line,” it educates students into a worldview that propagates social strife and instability...
Douthat has always stood apart from the crowd. As the sole Republican in a “staunch, hardline-Democrat family”, he formed his conservative worldview from an early age as “a way of rebelling against my parents?...
...Blair has been trying these past few weeks to propagate a vision for the anti-terror coalition, a worldview that incorporates the concerns and interests of important partners in the developing world. And that's something President Bush ought to learn from. Bush's traditional "freedom under attack" and "good vs. evil" themes may play well at home, but they have little resonance in the wider world. And just as President Bush expects more action against terrorism from other countries, so do many of those countries expect more active and responsible global citizenship on the part...
...this time of “emotional vulnerability,” I find it disturbing that Grizzle should so blatantly and ruthlessly continue to proselytize. I have not insulted him in these trying times by trying to force-feed him my worldview. I hope that I could expect the same respect and courtesy from him, but apparently I cannot. Shame on Grizzle for using this tragedy to further his own ends and shame on Fifteen Minutes for giving him the forum...
...affront to the overly commercial arena rock scene of the preceding decade. Since that time, on either side of the Atlantic, punk has been an institution more than a musical genre—it’s a way of thinking and a way of living, a wholly integrated worldview. At heart, any and all punk rockers live by a few basic mantras: 1) Offend the establishment, 2) Dispense with anything that smacks of conformity 3) De-prioritize talent and musicianship, as they reflect the very sort of ostentation and self-commodification from which the entire movement seeks to distance...