Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scare tactics to label as extremists the people who have the courage to fight brutal military dictators in Central America [March 22]? Why shouldn't Nicaragua arm itself against the U.S. Government, which has invaded it twice and is eager to do it again? Why do the Government and the press assume that backing military dictators supports U.S. interests? It doesn't support mine. Hasn't American industry found it profitable to deal with Communist governments in the Soviet Union, China, Yugoslavia and the Eastern satellites of the U.S.S.R.? Why does our Government invariably oppose a people...
Chief Justice Warren Burger and Associate Justice Harry Blackmun. The label was attached to the pair during the 1970-71 term, when Blackmun, newly arrived on the Supreme Court, voted more than 90% of the time with Burger, his fellow Minnesotan and childhood chum. Now come the Arizona Twins. In 48 of 52 written opinions this term, former Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Sandra Day O'Connor has sided with her Stanford Law School classmate, one-time Phoenix Lawyer William Rehnquist. The latest evidence of the like-mindedness of O'Connor and the high bench's leading...
...Minority student" is a label that Rodriguez dislikes and regrets having accepted for himself, first at Stanford, then as a graduate student at Columbia. By the time he won a Fulbright scholarship, he was in no way "socially disadvantaged." Yet in 1976, when fellow graduate students were scrounging for teaching jobs, Rodriguez found himself overwhelmed with offers from top universities, not because he was a skillful scholar-teacher-which he was-but simply because he was a member of a racial minority. Disillusioned by what he regarded as the unfairness of academic affirmative-action policies based solely on race...
...Preston). He appreciates her vocal talents and realizes how to market her. She becomes Victor, a delicate, unknown member of the Eastern European nobility who is Paris's greatest female impersonator. Enter King (James Garner), a Chicago gangster who becomes Victoria's love interest but refuses to accept the label of homosexuality his low-life companions attach to him because of his association with "Victor." Complications ensue...
...within the larger cocoon of Hamilton itself, unwilling to understand the feelings and aspirations of their neighbors. With no help from a newspaper that "exemplified the lack of communication among the sum of Hamilton's parts," the people wander in a stratified world that defies the much-loved American label of "melting pot." The lines are not exclusively economic--though money is the most important divider--but the lines exist, dividing the city into separate and unequal components...