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...used, walked with the same gait, held his hand in his jacket pocket with the thumb sticking out, just as J.F.K. did. He has a penchant for some of the high destinarian rhetoric that Kennedy used, the appeal to a visionary new generation. Hart kept using the first person plural in his press releases. His campaign sounded a note of the bogusly grand. Hart is Kennedy typed on the eighth carbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Kennedy Going on Nixon | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...Charles Kurzman's article of April 28th on "Rejuvenating Radcliffe" fails to recognize the important role that Radcliffe College plays for many women and men on campus, as well as its alumnae (note the plural feminine). First and foremost, I think that Mr. Kurzman misses the symbolic importance of maintaining Radcliffe the College. Demoting its status to a "Resource Center" would be to turn our backs on the history of women. True, the purpose of establishing Radcliffe was to provide women with a Harvard education, but along the way women discovered that that wasn't all they wanted or needed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

...Rosenthal's illustrious predecessors as editor of a New York newspaper was Horace Greeley of the Tribune, which no longer exists. It was an affectation of Greeley's to pluralize as the English do when a singular word has a plural context, as in "the government are concerned." Once Greeley impatiently cabled one of his correspondents, "Are there any news?" Back came the answer: "Sorry, not a single new." That unsung correspondent may only have intended a funny reply, but he appears to have had a firm grip on what needs to be reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newswatch: Don't Say It Again, Sam | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...historically-based critique points out that minority women are often held in a status of double- and even triple-faceted oppression that prioritizes issues of race and economic class over those of gender. She challenges the assumption that mainstream women's groups speak for or even recognize the plural demands presented by minority women's groups...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Women Around the World | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...Afrikaner journalist, "and he was not prepared to change that plan for anyone." During that six-week period, however, much of the world caught on to what the blacks of South Africa knew all along: the new pitch for "cooperative coexistence," much like earlier calls for "separate development," "plural relations" and "co-responsibility," is just another way of saying apartheid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Apartheid By Another Name | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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