Word: ad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other new tabloid-format papers, are busy attending to the profession's voracious appetite for scandal, scuttlebutt and shoptalk. Unlike hundreds of established legal journals, newspapers and newsletters, which concern themselves chiefly with issues and trends in the law, the new papers emphasize lawyers per se, ad hominem and in flagrante delicto. Also how and where lawyers work, what they earn, what their jobs are like, who's hot. who's not. and who's about to be indicted...
...magazine's familiar symbol and an invitation to audition for the project. The next day's edition featured a news story headlined PLAYBOY SEEKS WOMEN HERE TO POSE NUDE. That evening a majority of the 30 staff members at a Crimson editorial meeting voted to reject the ad. That decision prompted some staffers, male and female, to write lengthy editorial explications and dissenting opinions. The majority endorsed the paper's editorial, declaring that Playboy "has played a major role in America's degradation of women," but beyond that the arguments grew tortuous: on whether the Crimson...
...hand, which was not surprising, since the conflict between free speech and perceived pornography is one of the great civil libertarian conundrums of our time. Those in the skin trade take full advantage of the public confusion, Chan among them. Even as the Crimson debated, Chan placed an ad in the Boston Globe and was himself profiled in the paper's Living section. "I got censored. I felt very sad about that," he told the Globe ingenuously. "I never thought it would happen here at Harvard, where presumably people think for themselves. We'll see if the rest...
...findings were publicized on the Business School campus by the student-run Ad Hoe Committee Against Discrimination...
...easy to see why Einstein aroused ire. Revolutionary in nature, his ideas about space and time collided directly with ancient prejudices and seemed to contradict everyday experience. In ad dition, there were his outspoken antinationalism and, ironically in light of his own lack of belief in formal religion, the fact that he was a Jew. But criticism abroad was muted compared with that in Germany, where Jews were being made the scapegoats for loss of the war and Einstein's pacifism was bitterly remembered. Einstein and his "Jewish physics" became the object of increasingly scurrilous denunciations. Fellow German scientists turned...