Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...article in New York magazine, street-smart liberal columnist Pete Hamill asserts that homelessness is a public-health problem spawned by "drunks, crackheads or crazies," not a housing problem. "In a health crisis," Hamill contends, "the rights of the community must take precedence over the rights of an individual: your freedom ends at my lung." (Hamill did not mention in the story that he battled tuberculosis a few years ago and may have contracted it from a homeless person, though he has spoken publicly of his TB in the past.) Calling for "tough-love" solutions, Hamill offers a startling proposal...
Peninsula, Harvard's bastion of Truth, Justice and Femininity has just named this season's Women of the Year. And what women they are--a conservative columnist, a future saint, a dead white woman and a whole group of women who revere a dead white cause...
...other two winners have actually done something new since the Eisenhower administration. Maggie Gallagher, a conservative columnist, believes that "women need the support of men...and it is only within the committment of marriage that this support is guaranteed...
...Columnist William Safire recently character-ized American foreign policy as a variant of the carrot-and-stick game: the promise of reward combined with the threat of punishment. The problem, he believes, is that of too much carrot and too little stick...
...University of Pennsylvania, black students who disliked a student's columns challenging affirmative action and the character of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stole 14,000 copies of the Daily Pennsylvanian and said they were combating "institutional racism." At Duke University, gays who did not like a student columnist's opinion that theirs was "a dirty, sinful lifestyle that doesn't deserve any special rights" blocked his way to class and shouted epithets. At neither Penn nor Duke were the perpetrators disciplined. During the academic year that ended in June, there were 12 major incidents of U.S. campus papers stolen...