Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone admits the injustice, the oversimplification of labels, but the press sticks them on anything and everything nonetheless. When it doesn't invent a label itself, the press gratefully seizes on someone else's catch phrase. That's how Ronald Reagan early captured the high ground on his budget cutting. He promised not to harm the "truly needy" and to provide a "safety net" for protected groups like the aged. These soothingly imprecise phrases, so often repeated by Republican orators and in the columns, have set the tone of the budget debate...
...Labels generally lack subtlety. A button that says RIGHT TO LIFE or RIGHT TO CHOOSE leaves little space for reservations. Yet some labels that were pejoratives have come in time to be worn proudly by the accused. Originally, Tory meant an Irish thief; gothic, now used to describe great cathedrals, was once a dismissing word for something wild and crude. In the great political transformation that has taken place since Roosevelt's day, politicians who once flaunted their liberalism have come to prefer softer labels such as progressive, moderate, pragmatic-or have sought to have it both ways...
...starts its second decade as the world's top jazz label...
Forget it. That kind of scene may get by-marginally-in the movies, but at ECM Records it would be considered strictly for the tourist trade. There is a sort of house high-seriousness about all the diverse jazz on the ECM label. For its sessions, one must attune one's mythic misconceptions accordingly...
There is no doubt that last year Harvard's preoccupation with Indiana allowed Princeton to catch the Crimson off guard. However, rather than applying the label "lack of regard for league competition," as Goodheart does. I would instead be inclined to believe that it was a momentary lapee from which the squad has long since recovered...