Word: essays
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...added essay, Avoiding Sexist Language, offers some useful gender-neutral suggestions (firefighter instead of fireman). Yet browsers will find as well the stamp of acceptance on the dreadful herstory ("an alternative form to distinguish or emphasize the particular experience of women"); the execrable womyn ("alternative spelling to avoid the suggestion of sexism perceived in the sequence m-e-n"); and the absurd wait-person (waiter or waitress) and waitron ("a person of either sex who waits on tables"). Future lexicons, perhaps, will give us waitoid (a person of indeterminate sex who waits on tables...
...Soviet Union in 1922. In those talks, says Georgi Shakhnazarov, an adviser to Gorbachev, "we are encountering the same problems the Americans faced 200 years ago" -- and occasionally seeking guidance from the same sources. At one point, addressing representatives of the republics, Gorbachev read excerpts from an Alexander Hamilton essay in The Federalist Papers to back up his advocacy of a federal tax system under which the central government would collect at least some revenues directly. He was trying to steer them away from proposals, primarily from Yeltsin, for a plan in which the republics collect all the money...
...ESSAY Ellis Cose argues that quotas are a smoke screen...
...ESSAY An unsentimental environmental manifesto...
...from wars to the reason why men persist in wearing neckties. A colleague claims that Morrow uses the Socratic method. Says Lance: "It's more like the Lamaze method: a lot of huffing and subdued screams. When they start coming every 30 seconds or so, I deliver an essay." For his labors, he won a 1981 National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism and was a finalist a second time this spring...