Word: plotkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City College Psychology Professor Lawrence Plotkin argues that "ETS tests operate to exclude blacks, poor people, Chicanos and other minorities from professional training." Which isn't surprising when, for example, millions of Spanish speaking Americans have their "aptitude" tested in a language that isn't spoken in their homes...
...Patricia Plotkin, 41, past president of the local League of Women Voters and a first-year law student, used to be on the fence about Watergate. Now she declares: "I have zero faith in the President, at least in his integrity." To her, impeachment is still "a frightening prospect," but she adds: "I frankly would be willing to accept the fear. I don't feel that is any reason we should keep a President in office when there are fundamental questions about his honesty and his ability to serve...
Says Mrs. Patricia Plotkin, 41, past president of the local League of Women Voters: "Watergate is all you hear talked about. The number of disillusioned Republicans is incredible." Yet in an auto-service shop in the poorer section across town, the workers are fed up with Watergate. "What the hell's the big deal?" booms Mechanic Carl Reed, 51. "Both parties have been doing it for years." Ken Masshart, 34, blasts: "I'm so sick of hearing about it that I couldn't care less. I just jump right over it in the paper and read something...
...Alice Playten (nee Plotkin), 22, has emerged as one of Broadway's most felicitous singing actresses. She is best known for her role as the young bride who cooks the tumescent dumpling and muses about marshmallowed meatballs in a much remarked Alka-Seltzer commercial. She grew up-or at least to 4 ft. 10½ in.-in Brooklyn's Flatbush and in Queens. Dance classes at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School led, at the age of eleven, to a singing role in Wozzeck, a solo curtain call and a New York Times review commending the "crushing irony...