Word: ms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fine Arts Department has invited Ms. Porada of Columbia, an expert in Ancient Near Eastern Art. to be a visiting professor during the fall term...
...young mothers everywhere who, like Margaret, are "too old for an identity crisis and yet not past the age of uncertainty." If the authors insights are at times more precious than rare, her message is not. It is meant for those who dig men and the other two Ms and ask only to be out of the doll's house part...
...Ms.) KAY B. KNOX Stamford, Conn...
...open letter to Ms. Varda Murrell: Although the womanifestoes of your movement seem to me to be womental herstrionics, I can bear the threat of seeing womanacles on the male. In spite of your monuwomental attempts at a neoro-womantic revolution, your womanifest destiny, as sure as womenopause, is to be a revolutionary womanque, you and all your sheroes, Kate Millett, Gloria Steinem, old Uncle Tom Montagu, et al. But I turn purple as a girlsenberry when I see the wo-manner in which you try to womanipulate the Manglish Language for your inhu-woman purposes...
...standardize the movement's special jargon. In California, Varda Murrell is writing a Dictionary of Sexism attacking English as "Manglish." With perfect seriousness she advocates, for example, substituting "girlcott" for "boycott." Others are also playing the game. Unliberated honorifics like "Mrs." and "Miss" are replaced by the noncommittal "Ms." Idiotically, there is a move to replace "history" with "herstory." A favorite pejorative is "sexism"?the expression of conscious or unconscious male-chauvinist attitudes. Sexism was the sin of one professor who admitted at a San Francisco meeting of the staid Modern Language Association that, all things considered, he would...