Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perusal of texts from a wide variety of time periods will reveal this. No stage of a language is inherently superior to any other, since language naturally adapts to new environments and conditions. If people find it easier to make themselves understood by saying something in a slightly new fashion, such innovation will survive depending on its effectiveness and usefulness. Thus we see the application of the survival of the fittest theory to language. Changes in language that tend to obfuscate are generally the products of governments and their instruments, precisely the institutions Gerber would have institutionalize his linguistic "improvements...
...Fashion is a young game, all right, but consider: most of its grand masters are well settled into middle age. It is easy enough to make a splash with a giddy collection when you are fresh from art school, but making a mark takes an unwieldy combination of staying power and stubbornness, a good deal of money and a knack for sidestepping the competition even as you shoulder the weight of history. Against such formidable odds, a lot of talent has blazed for a season or two, then guttered. The recently concluded round of European fashion shows for the spring...
...surreptitious sophistication, neatly encapsulated London's trend toward revisionist sartorial conservatism, where rock style has been replaced by bemused manor- house dressing. Milan's Romeo Gigli, working with finesse and the wily eye of a fine stylist, accomplished the inevitable: he took the vaunting ideas of Japan's great fashion designers, tailored them down and gave them fresh commercial pertinence. The upstart fashion of all three designers brought a leavening of zest to what was, in large part, a problematic season...
...having to reevaluate their images of Black people. If a sales clerk or undercover security guard has a mental picture of all Blacks as disreputable ghetto dwellers, then the presence of a petty bourgeois, upper-middle class, or top drawer Black person threatens his world view and, in a fashion, his own sense of security...
Blaming Blacks in such a fashion not only betrays an incredible ignorance of the history of Black oppression in America; it also decreases the chances of improving their lot in the near future. Cohen basically is telling Blacks, "Sure, I'll accept you, but not until you become educated, upstanding citizens. In the meantime, stay out of my jewelry stores, keep away from my apartment building, and don't hang out with my kids." This attitude is more than simply offensive. It prevents us from fighting the profound inequality that still permeates our society...