Word: genericism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Superman had friends, and a life outside crime fighting as his alterego, Clark Kent. "The generic hero, kids could try to emulate," she said...
...Finally, we are angered by the way in which a rally ostensibly for the generic concept of "peace" and filled and nauseam with Vietnam-esque statements like "bring the troops home" was really an umbrella for the propagation of a larger political agenda...
...talking about generic terms it's all right, but I would never describe myself as Hispanic," says Hilda M. Alexander '90-'91, who is a Mexican national...
...many quarters there is anger. "The American man wants his manhood back. Period," snaps John Wheeler, a Washington environmentalist and former chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. "New York feminists ((a generic term in his lexicon)) have been busy castrating American males. They poured this country's testosterone out the window in the 1960s. The men in this country have lost their boldness. To raise your voice these days is a worse offense than urinating in the subway...
...These are techniques that come out of theRepublican national committee," said Hale Championof Harvard's Kennedy School of Government."They're generic--they get used all over thecountry...