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...main task was to update Roget's often Victorian language, deleting some of the fustier phrases, adding or redefining 20,000 others, including, for example, Watergate, streaking, hype and quadraphonic sound. "A modern man or woman," she says, "may work as an ombudsman, a psephologist, a spokesperson, a gogo dancer or a deejay." But the disturbed newspaper reaction came from the fact that Lloyd's updating featured an assault on sexism. Indeed, the word sexist has been added to the new edition of the thesaurus, right after "biased, twisted, jaundiced." Women are no longer listed...
...leader of the gogo, proud, successful New South, but last week Georgia's Governor George Busbee sounded downright shy about it. Speaking before 500 delegates to a White House Conference on balanced growth and development, Busbee uncharacteristically stressed what he did not like about the South: "We still have the greatest percentage of people living in poverty, with less than five years of schooling, living in substandard housing, lacking plumbing, and with more people per room than any other section of this country...
...back as a year ago, A.W. Clausen, head of Bank of America, warned his fellow bankers: "Recent rates of growth can be sustained only at a possible risk of eroding future strength and stability." Now J. Richard Fredericks, a bank analyst in San Francisco, puts it more pithily: "Gogo banking...
Marisa's father was the late Robert L. Berenson, a proper Bostonian and career diplomat. Her granduncle was the art historian Bernard Berenson. Her mother Gogo, now the Marchesa Cacciapuoti di Giuliano, was the daughter of Elsa Schiaparelli, the Parisian designer who introduced colors like shocking pink to the sober world of 1930s haute couture...
Harvard again came out skating hard in the second period, and the Crimson's gogo offensive style of sending all three forwards deep into the attacking zone began to wear the Terriers down...