Word: isolateed
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Such usage, Fairlie asserts, simplifies social phenomena in such a way as to isolate and segregate: thus, for example, " 'ethnics' are separated from nonethnics...the words themselves put people in 'ghettos,' and freeze them at opposite poles. It is in this way that we are manipulated by the words we...
WHAT,THEN,distinguished such benevolent maneuvering from the nefarious language employed by Nixon, who also could claim that he was attempting to build a consensus of social groups? Johnson was sincere, Fairlie responds; Nixon lacked conviction in his own values. And with this we see that at bottom Fairlie differs...
Ford has also shown progress in White House management and leadership, though he has still not made a total transition from Capitol Hill to the White House. In the beginning there was virtual anarchy. Ford did not rule, and neither did anybody else. White House staffers wandered into the Oval...
Taylor says that "the problem for us is not intolerance, but repressive tolerance." The radical faculty at Harvard is in a tiny minority, and it is difficult to predict that such a small group could have a very substantial impact against the control of education by more orthodox and conservative...
Members suggest that the Greek consulate has tried to isolate the association by urging community rejection of the group. Most agree that they are under a certain amount of surveillance from the consulate--if not within their meetings, then certainly at association-led demonstrations.