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"Male names are used throughout as are male referent pronouns for persons of agency," said Foley. "Women are rendered completely invisible...except in the single case of one female, who is mugging victim."

Author: By E.k. Anagnostopoulos, | Title: U.S. Will Investigate HUPD | 2/26/1991 | See Source »

From nowhere, though it might have been the flies, the word fire was, with a howl, repeated. The house lights came swiftly up. Enderby now saw, very rawly revealed, real seated people ready to unseat themselves, a lot of them, uneasily looking for the source of the cry or the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Excerpt: Books: Apr. 23, 1984 | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

OF THE two orders, religious and civil, one must be theoretically and effectively superior to the other. One of the two must be the underlying, ultimate referent and tribunal. Whenever a society considers a fundamental separation of the two to exist, the civil is necessarily the superior one.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law and the Kingdom, Part I: Cracks in the Wall of Separation | 11/3/1970 | See Source »

Though many Neo-Freudians are social revolutionaries, Dr. Blaine thinks that the psychiatrist should accept the moral standards given by his society. "We're here to understand why a patient behaves as he does. But if he has done something wrong, we need a clear referent in society so he...

Author: By Grant M. Ujifusa, | Title: Graham Blaine | 12/18/1963 | See Source »

Not everyone would agree combe. Although a friend and mate active with Lodge in the publican Club and the Society describes him as "not referent in his so-called 'formation from what he is now," there who remember and contra sledge conservatism with his position among the liberalization Republican Party...

Author: By Mary ELLEN Gale, | Title: Lodge at Harvard: Loyal Conservation 'Who Knew Just What He Wanted to Do. | 11/4/1960 | See Source »

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