"In the United States at this time, liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition," Lionel Trilling observed in 1950, in the preface of his book "The Liberal Imagination".
So when, in the preface, Trilling says, "In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition," he is indicating, in the elliptical manner that is characteristic of his prose, that he is treating all liberals alike.
When literary critic Lionel Trilling wrote in 1950 that liberalism was "not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition" in the United States, he meant it as a lament.
The 80 blankets, which are part of Mr. Chihuly's personal collection, date from the 1880's to the 1930's; most were woven at the Pendleton Woolen Mills in Pendleton, Ore., the sole surviving practitioner of the tradition.
This approach also allowed Needham's group to consistently and coherently refute "orientalist" claims or prima facie assumptions that science was the sole property of a European tradition extending backward in time to ancient Greece, with little or no influence from any other cultural tradition.
Among Broadway's marquee names, Mr. Lane is the sole avatar of a spirited comic tradition that stretches back to vaudeville and is associated with stars like Eddie Cantor, Bert Lahr and Phil Silvers.
Last week a Real IRA representative said it had fallen out with Continuity IRA over the latter group's claim to be the true, sole inheritor of the Irish republican tradition.
Walking past the rolls of uncut leather to the area where workers in red shirts stretched, glued and sewed soles and uppers, Mr. Martín emphasized tradition.
While they say they are confident enough to sail without a trail boat, they have painted white crosses on the soles of the Nikes, a sailors' tradition meant to ward of sharks and other sea monsters.
For Berlin, the E.C.B. must be totally independent of governments, with the sole mandate of ensuring price stability, in the tradition of the Bundesbank.
