Word: princess
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Awash in the devotion accorded PRINCESS DIANA after her death, many a commentator surmised that a secular saintliness had enveloped her. Now Harper's Bazaar editor in chief LIZ TILBERIS claims that Diana gave off New Agey emanations. In her autobiography No Time to Die, excerpted in Britain's Daily Mail, Tilberis describes Diana's healing powers, which both women referred to as a "white light." Diana used the term metaphorically, but Tilberis maintains that a call from the princess boosted her platelet count while she was undergoing chemotherapy to cure her ovarian cancer. "I believe the princess was single...
Along with the Jewish Mother, the Jewish American Princess has increasingly entered American culture as an acceptable stereotype of Jewish women. Many of the most politically correct of us use the term as an innocuous description--devoting little thought to its existence as a gendered and ethnic stereotype...
While I respect the media's right to pursue a news story, I must say that watching the frenzy when Clinton's secretary was called before the grand jury deeply saddened me [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 16]. Have we forgotten so quickly what happened to Princess Diana? Isn't the mainstream press guilty of doing what it is so critical of? JOSEPH MCGRATH Stratford, Conn...
DEATH OF A PRINCESS...
...book about the death of Princess Diana is an insult to the French medical team that fought in vain to save her life last August [BOOK EXCERPT, Feb. 16]. Everyone knows the situation was hopeless. It is tasteless for a couple of American journalists to criticize the heroic efforts of the French doctors and the British intelligence team that have had to pick up the pieces and deal with the aftermath of the accident. The authors can wheel out as many American experts as they like, expound on as many theories as they like of how American procedures could have...