Word: shibboleth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Furthermore, readers can come away with the encouraging feeling that these new bleak writers possess such audacity and conviction that we may have to find them a more encompassing--and cheerful--name. With Juck, we can put the timid shibboleth "Post Modernism" behind us at the same time: when authors like Carol Bly look to the future they invoke a visionary power that threatens to dilate into a new brand of fiction, one in which the characters as well as the audience are party to the author's hopes, secrets, and best-guesses. Though cantankerous, disheveled Svea dies early...
There are all sorts of new technologies that IBM doesn't have the expertise to get." Such claims naturally make IBMers bristle. "This is a shibboleth cultivated by certain Wall Streeters," declares Paul Low, manager of the IBM plant in East Fishkill, N.Y. "Nobody who peeks inside any of our 29 laboratories could fall for that nonsense." Company spokesmen like to point out that IBM spent 53 billion on research, development and engineering last year, an amount that exceeds the total revenues of many of its rivals. The firm has also taken the offensive in a new advertising campaign...
...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...