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...sexism and classism. I know how hard people must struggle against such prejudices and stereotypes. "Redneck" is not a helpful word in that struggle. It's the same struggle I must wage to keep people from calling me "chink" or "Chinaman." I hope Crimson editors add it to their list of racially offensive terms and phrases. Sam Lowe Southern Baptist Chaplain
...Mecham strikes many voters as a simpleminded ideologue who is giving a bad name to the nation's second-fastest-growing state. After rescinding the Jan. 19 holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., Mecham defended the use of the term "pickaninnies" for blacks. In February he asked for a list of state employees who are gay. Says Republican State Representative Jane Hull: "This state has had enough. It's just getting too damaging...
There are a few living American artists whose latest show one would always feel eager to see. Susan Rothenberg is high on the list. At 42 she has survived the cultural gorge-and-puke of the early '80s, the manic starmaking and the pressure on immature talent -- all due, presumably, to wither in the hangover from the bull market. Rothenberg's anxious but unhurried cast of mind was somehow fortified in the pressure cooker. Her current show at New York City's Sperone Westwater gallery (through Nov. 14) is in some respects her best...
...Bronx, exudes the resentment of a young man who has to live in a small, narrow, $888-a-month apartment ("a slot") with his wife, new baby and nurse (paid for by his mother-in-law). The underclass is represented mainly by ghetto felons: armed robbers who list their occupations as "security guards" and young drug pushers who have mastered "the Pimp Roll," a swaggering gait not uncommon on the city's streets...
With backs Nick Gates, Gian D'Ornellas and Roger Chapman off the injury list, the Harvard defense looks to be strong in today's contest. And with junior Stephen Hall (1.01 g.a.a.) in net, the Quakers will be hard-pressed to repeat last year's three-goal performance...