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...people, red people, yellow people and white people: the unmarked pronoun just happens to be the one used for white people. In addition, the colored peoples just happen to constitute an oppressed group. Now imagine that this oppressed group begins complaining about the use of the "white" pronoun "to refer to all people."' Our linguists presumably then say. "Now, now, 'there is really no cause for anxiety or pronoun envy...' You just don't understand that 'markedness is one of the fundamental principles which govern the organization of the internal economies of all human languages."' Such a reply is completely...
Ionesco makes no mention of his playwriting in Present Past Past Present. In several passages he uses his symbol of the rhinoceros for those insensitive conformists, the 'New Men', who are the ogres of Ionesco's imagination, but never does he refer to the play Rhinoceros which was his first commercial success. Except for a smattering of italicized comments sprinkled throughout the text Present Past was written before Ionesco wrote his first play. The Bald Soprano, at the age of thirty-seven. Ionesco writes of his youth in Rumania and Paris, his father's desertion of his mother, the horrors...
...recent article ("Two Women Liberate Church Course," Nov, II) mentions a proposal by some members of our community calling for a ban on the use of man, men, and masculine pronouns "to refer to all people." This proposal to recast part of the grammar of the English language reflects a concern which we as linguists would like to try to alleviate...
...second proposal, an effort to "integrate theory and action" called for "concerted efforts in the lectures and discussions of this course no longer to use sexist language." The proposal specifically called for a ban on the use of "Man," "Men" and masculine pronouns "to refer to all people...
...Viet Nam, what American can afford to condemn Japanese conduct during World War II? After Dutch treatment of Indonesians, what Dutchman can afford to throw a thermos bottle at Emperor Hirohito [Oct. 18]? The mentality behind such acts is the same as the arrogance that leads certain people to refer to policemen as "pigs." "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone" (John...