Word: ms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entirely sure why we are wasting our time writing to comment on such a piece of self-apparent pap as Ms. Rosenthal's "Sociobiology: Laying the Foundation for a Racist Synthesis," (Crimson, 2/8/77) but perhaps we dislike seeing flagrant slanders and half-truths go unrebutted. Ms. Rosenthal represents two political organizations, the Committee Against Racism and the Sociobiology Study Group, part of Science for the People of Boston, yet she dares to continually attack those who dispute her brand of ideological orthodoxy with being "unscientific." She seems to posit some grand conspiracy advocating "immigration restriction, eugenics, imperialism, and anti-communism...
...only the magazine's creator and editor, Clay Felker, but also Design Director Milton Glaser, Managing Editor Byron Dobell (who agreed to stay through a brief transition) and 20 other editorial hands, including such notables as Tom Wolfe, Financial Writer George ("Adam Smith") Goodman, Washington Reporter Richard Reeves, Ms. Editor Gloria Steinem, Press Critic Edwin Diamond and Gail Sheehy, bestselling author (Passages) and Felker's companion...
...that was to be reincarnated as New York, he gave free rein to such emerging stars as Jimmy Breslin, Dick Schaap, George ("Adam Smith") Goodman. Many of the best and the brightest have left in rage and frustration-or on the wave of New York-borne success. Felker, says Ms. editor and Felker protégée Gloria Steinem, is "the lightning rod of animosity-and of creativity...
...Ms. Barbara Walters...
Following this auspicious beginning, Ms. Fraser's letter degenerates into a wasteland of cliche and propaganda. Spewing out such terms as "class conscious protest," the "Imperialist puppet regime," and "the Stalinist deformed workers state," the author fights to disguise her letter's basic implausibility. Reading like a typical showpiece for any sort of disreputable organization, the letter struggles for legitimacy by using technical jargon and meaningless prose. Appropriately enough, the letter closes with further allusions to "imperialist spies," "imperialist research," and "imperialist butchery...