Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article. Grossman used the term "naive redneck" to describe the kind of people who are attracted to a place like Heritage U.S.A. I must strenuously object to such cavalier use of a term that is at least as offensive as other racial epithets with which we are all familiar. Of course, the people whom the more genteel of us call "redneck" happen to have white skin. They are not "people of color", Black, Hispanic or Asian-American, like myself. The term, however, applied to them is a derogatory reference to the laboring agricultural folk of the South whose white necks...
...Southern Baptist chaplain at Harvard-Radcliffe, I suppose I am more sensitive than most when the poor white laboring folk of the South are being derogated. Then again, as a Southern Baptist, I'm also too familiar with the human sins of racism, sexism and classism. I know how hard people must struggle against such prejudices and stereotypes. "Redneck" is not a helpful word in that struggle. It's the same struggle I must wage to keep people from calling me "chink" or "Chinaman." I hope Crimson editors add it to their list of racially offensive terms and phrases...
...than a book. ! Paradoxically, money creates a deep sense of powerlessness as well, since technically we are not able to provide money for ourselves; someone or something else must do that for us -- our employers or, until recently, our stocks. All that, money can do; and when such essential, familiar functions are snatched from one's life, small wonder that people may grow wild, frantic, even (as in the shooting in a stockbrokers' office in Miami last week) murderous...
...subjects of this show are mostly dancers and jugglers, manipulators of the fleeting instant in whose work Rothenberg detects a familiar cultural pathos, distantly related to Picasso's circus folks but less sentimental. Most of them are in rapid movement, spinning, doing plies and tossing eggs, and this contrasts oddly with the way they are painted. True, Rothenberg always liked to play on contradictions between the quick, snapshot nature of her chosen image (a galloping horse, a teetering bicyclist, Mondrian solemnly turning like a mantis on the dance floor) and the nuanced and obviously slow way it was presented...
Wolfe will most likely be denounced for creating comic characters who accurately reflect familiar and self-important fixtures in New York life. At the top of the heap are "social X rays," rumpless women of a certain age who believe one cannot be too rich or too thin. Sixtyish men of this stratum are frequently accompanied by "lemon tarts," sleek, young blonds. Sherman McCoy is a decent well-bred sort, neither more nor less lustful than most confident 38-year-old males and particularly amusing when he gives facts and figures about how one can go broke in Manhattan...