Word: faddism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Editor Jose M. Ferrer III, Associate Editor Anastasia Toufexis and Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison make up the Health & Fitness team. Promises Ferrer: "We want to take a newsy story and approach it with enthusiasm and a careful eye. We won't be carried away by faddism." Says Toufexis, a veteran medical writer who likes ballet, gymnastics, diving and bicycling: "I used to be obsessive, but now I enjoy exercise in moderation." Harbison, who is a runner, gymnast and tennis player, believes in the long-term benefits of sport. Says she: "I'm not out to beat other people...
Placing most of the blame on college faculties, Bennett argued that undergraduate education has been severely crippled by intellectual or ideological faddism, narrow specialization in the graduate schools and too little attention to introductory and lower-division courses...
Sexism in language has been angrily debated for at least a decade. Not only are school textbooks being purged, but scholarly committees are re-examining even the Bible to determine whether the Son of Man, for example, should be renamed the Child of God. This may sound like faddism, but reformers insist that the wide spread use of terms like policeman and chairman helps decide who gets the jobs (and the power), that what people call things sometimes governs what they think about them. Traditionalists retort that language cannot and should not be subjected to such moral judgments...