Word: russe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russ Gibson, Russ Nixon...
...Francisco's Russ ("the Moose") Syracuse attracts an estimated 50,000 listeners from midnight to dawn with KSFO's on-the-air lonely-hearts club. "This is Love Line," he announces. "Use your index finger and dial this number. Radio romance can be yours for the price of a phone call." A few of Syracuse's callers only want a weekend date, but not many. He claims to have fostered 13 marriages and twelve engagements. "How many disk jockeys," he asks, "get that kind of satisfaction?" Quite a few, if they measure satisfaction in terms...
...Vixen. Russ Meyer's skin flick. Baker 100. 8, April...
Oppression. Many of these courses emphasize a long history of discrimination and denigration. Joanna Russ, an English instructor at Cornell, is trying to change the rules whereby, as she recalls her own education, "we studied E.M. Forster but not Virginia Woolf. We read Thackeray, who was splendid, but not Charlotte Bronte, who was considered eccentric, minor and dull." In history, too, the emphasis has been changed to the study of "invisible women" whose achievements have been largely forgotten: Dorothea Dix, whose exposes revolutionized conditions in mental institutions a century ago; Sojourner Truth, a former slave and influential abolitionist...
Prejudice. The feminists, like many black scholars, reject the notion of "value-free" scholarship that rises above prejudice. Preconceptions and unexamined assumptions are widespread in education, they contend, and must be refuted by an adversary process. Cornell's Joanna Russ is often asked: "Why don't you present the other side?" Her reply: "The other side is all around us." Or, as Buffalo's Ann Scott says of John Milton: "Nobody who is such a great writer has a right to be such a damn...