Word: ix
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...miss the sign in the sky indicating that Marilyn Monroe isn't just a star, she's a whole constellation. The script by Musker, Clements, Bob Shaw, Donald McEnery and Irene Mecchi is rife with Oedipus riffs, Achilles spiels, Zeus zingers and roman-numeral jokes--"Somebody call IX-I-I." The Greeks had a word for it: shtick...
Those concerned with the equality of women at Harvard were also troubled this year by the University's attempts to comply with the Title IX statute, which prohibits sex discrimination in education...
Opponents of Title IX are worried that the expansion of women's sports will cause the elimination of men's teams. But that is a shibboleth that can be chased away with better fiscal management. College sports administrators like to point out that there are actually three genders: male, female and football. Maintaining a football team for 12 weekends of entertainment is an astoundingly expensive proposition for Division I-A schools, especially when Nebraska insists on dressing 140 players. If the Green Bay Packers can get by with 45 players, why can't colleges play with, say, 60? According...
Those who scream loudest about the injustice of Title IX are usually football boosters, some of whom are middle-aged male athletic directors who hold the purse strings. But as Lopiano says, "The dinosaurs are leaving." What's driving them into extinction is not so much feminism or economics but rather parenthood. "Young parents, that first generation of moms and dads who grew up believing their daughters could be athletes, are a vast force for change," says Lopiano. Dads--especially, she adds, men who have coached their daughters' teams for years--are really going to be mad if athletic scholarships...
Those disappointed in the Supreme Court's tacit approval of Title IX won't like this further prediction from Lopiano: "You ain't seen nothin...