"Dull as it may be to say so," he wrote in 1999, "the old orthodoxy was by and large right."

The current trend, however, is for the old orthodoxy to be reasserted.

"It's about looking at some of the old orthodoxies with fresh eyes and making a transition that is long overdue."

Yet in the interests of humane values, many scientists are reluctant to make even minor adjustments to the old orthodoxy.

But there is another and older orthodoxy imbedded in the history of this country and to which I hold.

No matter how limited and misleading they were, the old orthodoxies had authority.

She made precious few concessions to the old orthodoxies.

The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies, the worse they have suffered.

If anything, it was Platonism that was the old orthodoxy.

But what has struck the experts as unusual is how these collectors have for the most part narrowly followed the old orthodoxy in taste.