Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haymarket's donors, board, and staff are not interested in "helping others," with the patronizing condescension the phrase implies. Haymarket, unlike traditional foundations, is taking money out of the hands of people who hold power in this country, and putting into the hands of activists in tenant organizations, women's centers, and rank and file labor movements who decide on its utilization. Haymarket is working to be a resource for change, not charity. Haymarket Peoples Fund 2 Holyoke St. Cambridge...
...women who need to be told that being a housewife is a worthy occupation, but men. It is very convenient for people to blame feminism for the low status housewives have and feel, but the phrase "just a housewife" was not invented by women's liberation-it has been in use for a long time. Many men want their wives to stay home and then resent them for doing...
...author animates dreary economics lessons with did-you-know facts. For example it was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest." The assembly line was not invented by Henry Ford but by an anonymous Frenchman who increased pin production tenfold by instituting the division of labor at his factory. Paper money is of pure Yankee lineage. When Massachusetts soldiers returned from action in the French and Indian War in 1690 they were paid not in coin but in promissory notes that could be traded for goods. The perverse alchemy by which governments turned gold...
Sampson's noticeable lack of Houdini jargon and techniques emphasize his desire to take the occult out of this mysterious art. "Hypnosis goes by a variety of different names; it is a coin phrase. For me, hypnosis is nothing more than the accentuation of concentration while in a state of relaxation, and generally speaking this is what I help people to do, to better utilize their existing potential," he says...
...blistering tarmac of Southern California. The book desiccated human experience. As Didion now sees it, her novel was "a way to work out my own feelings of aridity." Yet as a work of fiction, Play It As It Lays enabled the reader to taste-in Poet Wallace Stevens' phrase-"the unreal of what is real...