Word: newsweeklies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effect of this new fever is to pull the divide between race and class further apart, and faster. Take a close look at where Ebonics is being debated and examined: Time, Newsweek, the college debate teams and op-ed sections of the papers. Who reads and writes these articles and who participates in these debates? More importantly, how is the dialect explained and portrayed...
...debate over Ebonics has essentially become an Us v. Them debate. Newsweek certainly does not use the Ebonic grammatical structure. Newsweek uses standard English to explain what Ebonics is, and how California is using it--and thereby automatically creates opposition. This opposition is the dreaded binary: male/female, cat/dog, English/Ebonics...
Difference is clearly never equal; we can all agree that separate but equal just does not work. It can't, and in creating two separate schools--those who speak, read and write Ebonics v. those who don't (or, those who read Newsweek and those who don't)--the difference is being established beyond any reasonable boundary...
...iron lady" who built the Post into one of the nation's great papers, stood up to the Nixon Administration during Watergate and hobnobbed with the rich and powerful while running one of the nation's premier media companies (owner of newspapers and TV stations, as well as Newsweek magazine). In Personal History (Knopf; 642 pages; $29.95), her disarmingly candid and immensely readable autobiography, Graham not only chronicles that personal transformation with more honest self-analysis than probably any other media mogul ever; she also provides an invaluable inside glimpse of some of the most critical turning points in American...
...oppressive, particularly the subtle ways in which Phil--she realizes in retrospect--condescended to her, damaged her self-esteem, made her content to be "the tail to his kite." She never wavered in her devotion to him, however, even when he had an affair with a young Newsweek stringer in the early '60s. By that time, his behavior was becoming more erratic, the result of a manic-depressive disorder that was treated by a psychiatrist who "did more harm than good," she says, recommending existentialist philosophy in lieu of drugs. Finally, on the day he returned home after a stay...