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...LANDERS Called the Pope a Polack in the New Yorker. Sounds like a problem for Dear Abby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Dec. 11, 1995 | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...Landers could use a little advice. The columnist, who cheerfully uttered a grab-bag of insults about famous figures in a New York magazine profile published this week, today apologized to the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America for having called Pope John Paul II a "polack" in the article. "It's time to get out the wet noodle and give myself 40 lashes," read a statement. "I should not have used a slang term for Polish. It was poor judgment, and I apologize." Landers, who once topped a World Almanac poll as the most influential woman in the United...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DARK SIDE OF ANN LANDERS | 11/30/1995 | See Source »

...TALKIN' TO YOU, NIGGER," A voice hisses as the visitor walks through the gloomy passageway. "Faggot," taunts another. With every step comes a whispered insult, a mean murmur: "Loudmouthed kike! Lousy gook! Dumb Polack! Camel jockey! Red-neck bastard! Sexist pig! Goddam beaner! Get whitey!" A wolf whistle rings out and a leering voice calls, "Hey, baby." And with every message of hate, the feeling of alarm grows. "What you gonna do about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Museum of Hate | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

...Duluth, a retired 56-year-old fire fighter named Roger Armstrong says, "Ability and intelligence have nothing to do with gender. For an old blue-collar Polack [on his mother's side] like me, that's a hell of an admission." Workers in Chicago bars accepted Jane Byrne as mayor without any sense of trauma or endangered masculinity. Studs Terkel, anthropologist of the working class, explains: "The issue is dead. The guys in the bar have been conditioned by idols like Barbara Stanwyck. Now they're ready for a Gerri Ferraro or a Pat Schroeder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Not a Woman? | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

December 1978: Meeting Atlanta Braves Pitcher Phil Niekro, he notes: "I didn't know you were a Polack. I thought you were a bastardized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Billy Speaks Up | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

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