Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only the Fort Worth Times correspondent dared to fetch a take-out lunch from the cafeteria downstairs. He sat on a windowsill in the rear, morosely munching a sandwich. The others stood for an hour and a half rather than miss the President's emergence. Doubtless, many considered sneaking out for a cup of coffee, then thought of trying to justify missing a vital quote to their senior editors...
Hesitant as I am to intrude into the battle between the sexes, pitting Cynthia V. Hooper against Craig S. Lerner ("Women's Studies," March 23 and March 16, respectively), I will nonetheless venture into this dangerous territory. I do so only reluctantly, compelled by the strength of Miss Hooper's unladylike indignation and by the boldness of her ambitious design...
...What Miss Hooper means is to have a feminist presentation of women's studies. And she wants her feminists in many departments, rather than in just one. This returns us to the question, does the feminist approach deserve recognition as a powerful new body of knowledge of use of reason...
...questions are all how to effect more egalitarianism, how to effect a political agenda. The old questions, which Hooper assumes answered, examine the agenda itself, an agenda unquestioned by the "new questions." What is the natural basis of conventional inequalities between men and women? Miss Hooper knows the answer is none. I'm not so smart. I just don't know that sex roles are simply Evil and wholly the result of some malevolent, oppressive "social structure." Questions that challenge Miss Hooper's Gospel become unexaminable when an entire concentration devotes itself to a mission. Preaching replaces teaching...
Also on Air Force One was Joy Underdown, a third-grade teacher from Columbia, who in the early 1960s taught young Ron Reagan, the President's son, when he was a preschooler in Los Angeles. Miss Joy, as the family called her, had been visiting Washington when the long nose of the White House sniffed her out and tempted her to take the power trip. She loved...