Word: boxed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this fall The Crimson ran a small box on its front page announcing that after 115 years. The Crimson would now employ gender neutral terminology. Chairmen would now be referred to as chairs, and spokesmen would be spokespersons...
...occasion of much debate at first. After all, it seemed ridiculous to refer to the head of our editorial board as Chairman when she was, in fact, a woman. And besides, what relevance does a person's gender have to their capacity to do the job? But after the box appeared, there was criticism. It followed the lines which have become all too familiar. Does everything have to be an issue? The Crimson has finally lost its independence and is now a slave to modish opinion...
...says a senior Administration official. "But we'll probably have to do just that. How we do it without making the President out to be a liar or an incompetent weakling is going to take all of George Bush's skills. The shiftiness required to get out of that box is going to make everything he's done to get here seem like child's play...
...compromise," he said. "We need harmony . . . The people await action. They did not send us here to bicker . . . Let us negotiate soon -- and hard. But in the end, let us produce." Here, if nowhere else, one heard an almost plaintive cry: Help me, Congress, help me escape from the box I've created...
...Passe was put in charge of Motown Productions. Under Gordy's direction, the division had scored a hit in 1972 with Lady Sings the Blues, starring Diana Ross. But some other Gordy efforts, including Mahogany and The Wiz, were box-office disappointments...