Word: dogma
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...consultants a candidate hires - very few handlers achieve the celebrity status of a Karl Rove or a James Carville. Most voters who supported McCain in 2000 but not this year have more obvious gripes: they don't like the way he's shaved his policy positions to approach Republican dogma. They may remember that he opposed the Bush tax cuts before he favored them. They may remember that he was more moderate on social issues like abortion in 2000, decrying the extremists on both sides and saying that "people of good intentions" could come to some understanding. They...
...least amount of flat foot." Manny's celebration of action directors took a while to kick in - it had to be doubled or seconded by Cahiers du Cinema critics in France, and Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael here - but to the next generation of critics his apostasy became dogma...
...Cooper Union in New York City. But as Obama told TIME, this was in the Reagan years, and he was also reading works by conservative giants like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek. He browsed among the ideologues but never bought in, he said. "I was always suspicious of dogma and the excesses of the left and the right...
...partly explains why, if you look at not just my politics, but also I think who I am as a person - in some ways, I'm pretty culturally conservative. I was always suspicious of dogma and the excesses of the left and the right. One of my greatest criticisms of the Republican Party over the last 20 years is that it's not particularly conservative. I can read conservatives from an earlier era - a George Will or a Peggy Noonan - and recognize wisdom, because it has much more to do with respect for tradition and the past, and I think...
...taste ran to shots that were crisp as an apple, easily deciphered, and put a bright spin on things. Frank's were blurred, murky, tilted and mysterious. In Parade--Hoboken, New Jersey, the Stars and Stripes flutter between two bunkered enigmas, an image radically at odds with the national dogma of strength and good cheer...