Word: paradigm
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Jesuit Father William Sullivan, president of Seattle University, sees the archdiocese as a paradigm of a nationwide tension between liberals and conservatives. On one side are people like Hunthausen, "a man of Vatican II" who favors the "democratic mentality." On the other stands "the older notion of top-down authority" reinforced by the Pope...
...largest army in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States is 200; Grenada's was nearly 2,000. Nor does the region have a history of bloody coups or the placing of an entire population under house arrest. Jamaica and its allied democracies were reacting not to a paradigm but to an anomaly...
DISNEY IS NOT a paradigm of cool. Not that nature movies generally are, but most viewers will without a doubt recall with a wince those semi-documentaries which manage to cram the grand expanses of nature into the vacuum tube confines of the American psyche with a liberal lubricaiton of cuteness. You know, the bear cubs clumsily gamboling about, choreographed to silly bassoon music and chortling narration ("Well, I guess our little friends got more than they bargained for when they tried to get into that beehive...
...purely unemotional, pragmatic level, this Administration's policy toward the Caribbean Basin in general and Grenada in particular has been a paradigm of idiocy. Before the coup in Grenada two weeks ago, the island was already ruled by a Marxist, Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. Although Bishop was hardly a proponent of American-style capitalism-perhaps with reason, given widespread rumors of a CIA-backed coup to depose him several years ago-he nonetheless realized it was in his country's interest to have cordial relations with the United States. To that end, he travelled to Washington last spring, only...
...having his own family. Affairs of business (the board of directors wants a new chairman) drive him away again, and in that journey his family is torn asunder, eclipsed, distanced from each other, only to come together years later after great hardship and anguish. The story provides a paradigm of family traumas: striking out alone, marriage, divorce, filial differences or just plain lack of time for each other. But ultimately, Pericles celebrates the nuclear family which endures and reunites against all odds and society's evils. All will live happily until the cycle of life starts agains with new children...