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In most cases, the classic masculine metaphors for God and Jesus have survived (for example, The King of Love My Shepherd Is). But a few modern hymns were added to ascribe feminine attributes to the divine. Syntax permitting, male pronouns referring to the Deity were shunned. In O Worship the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Singing Hymns and Hers | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

But what is mere money when one has become a figure of legend, a figure immortalized, if that is the word, in Judith Krantz's I'll Take Manhattan? "Donald Trump, the brilliant, ambitious young real estate man whom even his enemies had to admit was disarmingly unaffected," Krantz wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flashy Symbol of an Acquisitive Age: DONALD TRUMP | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

AT the Kennedy School, recurring problems such as discrimination in employment, sexual harassment and male-female power roles are brushed off as "communications" or "personal" problems. Faculty advise female students not to wage such unwinnable battles as the use of gender specific pronouns. Biases and insults go unchallenged, and workplace...

Author: By Diana G. Tabler, | Title: Kennedy School Sexism | 2/23/1988 | See Source »

In the original, Antonio and Bassanio have such extreme affection for each other that each is willing to offer up his life for the other without a second thought. Director Erik Salovaara makes this relationship less disquieting by changing Antonio into a woman, Antonia. Joanna Skoler's controlled performance and...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Venetian Binds | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

Beryl, as everyone called her, spent money when she had it and ran up bills when she did not. In important matters, which meant clothes and horses, she went first-class. She had women friends -- Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) was an early protector -- but she liked men better. Her maternal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Force Of Nature STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING: THE BIOGRAPHY OF BERYL MARKHAM | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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