Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letters of Jones's followers show their awe and affection for him, even when they were uncomfortable with his actions. He looms over them not as an autocrat, but as a beneficent master. We may call him sick and ruthless, yet we must admit he held some uncanny attractiveness--and he hardly seems mad, at least not until his last days in Jonestown...
Committee members will discuss appropriate reasons to call a boycott, the standards used to decide whether to boycott corporate products, and the role of the special committee in recommending policy changes, Mayer said...
...added that if Brown does not respond, the groups will call for his resignation from the board of directors. "We will continue to publicize his links with Allied Stores," Kahn said...
LAST WEEK, The Crimson found itself in the difficult position of having to decide whether to run an advertisement asking Radcliffe students to call David Chan, a Playboy photographer, if they were interested in posing for an upcoming Playboy pictorial on "Women of the Ivy League." The Crimson decided not to run the ad because through the ad the paper would be actively helping Playboy in its exploitation of women--in effect, The Crimson would be acting as an intermediary between Playboy and the Radcliffe community, directly aiding the magazine in its procurement of models. These considerations, The Crimson decided...
...economic and social equality with men are gradually falling. In turn, sexist attitudes on the part of the media, employers, and other social groups are taking on even more importance as barriers to women's success. Playboy, of course has been at the fore of the exploitative media. To call Playboy seamy or stupid and leave it at that misses the point: Playboy uses as its biggest drawing card a highly stylized format displaying women as sex objects, and has over its lifetime done more to cement men's sexist perception of women than any other publication...