Word: genericizing
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...women should be admitted to ordination." The very title "priest" should be dropped, Küng says, "since, according to the New Testament view, all believers are 'priests.' " Thus he prefers the more functional names of the New Testament like presbyter, elder and overseer, or simply the generic title "leader" or "presider," denoting one elected to preach the word and preside at the community's sacramental experiences: baptism and the Eucharist...
...rejected a $73 million rate increase from the state's Blue Cross group health insurance system and ordered its directors to renegotiate Blue Cross contracts with some 90 hospitals. The new contracts must include 34 cost-control guidelines that he proposed. For example, hospitals now have to buy generic drugs instead of more expensive name-brand drugs. In Blue Cross's defense, Denenberg notes that the system returns 96? in benefits for every premium dollar, compared with 53? to 58? on the dollar for most nongroup health companies. For that reason, Denenberg has proposed giving Blue Cross...
...baiting device Friedkin picked up from Detective Eddie Egan, the cop on whom Doyle's character is based, who plays the narcotics division chief to Russo and Doyle (Gene Hackman) in Connection and who is soon to star in a film vehicle called Fuzz. The incident goes under the generic title "police harrassment" and is, no doubt, only a generalized adaptation from many such episodes in Egan's career...
...interesting to read the apologia for "he" as the generic pronoun which some linguists sent to the Crimson. Without arguing about the supposed facts involved, we present the following hypothetical: in culture R the language is such that pronouns are different according to the color of the people involved, rather than their sex. In R there are separate pronouns for brown people, black people, red people, yellow people and white people: the unmarked pronoun just happens to be the one used for white people. In addition, the colored peoples just happen to constitute an oppressed group. Now imagine that this...
...variety, cut higher, tighter and altogether skimpier than anything Ruby Keeler ever kicked in (see THE THEATER). No longer fashioned of sturdy standards like denim and broadcloth, the current crop is made of flashier stuff-mink and monkey fur, silk and satin, calfskin, chiffon and cut velvet. The accepted generic term, hot pants, lends the style the leering inference of an adolescent joke. But short shorts are no joke; they are serious business, and women in major European and U.S. cities are currently risking their fashion reputations-and severe frostbite-to wear them...