Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hopkins' suit dramatizes the dilemma faced by many professional women who attempt to walk the narrow line between appearing serious and seeming overly severe. "Men in fields that have long been dominated by males tend to expect women to act both feminine and businesslike," says Herma Hill Kay, a sex- discrimination expert at the University of California, Berkeley. "I think they don't realize they're sending out conflicting messages...
...directory, a takeoff on the traditional "plum book" of political patronage, has a serious purpose: to stress "the consequences of failure to perform effectively" in sub-Cabinet Government offices. Explains former State Department spokesman John Trattner, who wrote the book: "A prune is a plum with experience...
...years ago, the Minnesota Senator mobilized the forces of antiwar protest by daring to challenge President Lyndon Johnson. His candidacy then was an odd mixture of poetry and politics, of sardonic humor and philosophical discussion. McCarthy's latest race, on different tickets in different states, is more symbolic than serious, but he is still attempting to change the political system and is still full of irony and sarcasm. His new book, Required Reading, is a collection of his essays. He talked with TIME chief of correspondents John Stacks and New York bureau chief Bonnie Angelo...
...serious about that. In 1803 there was a vote in the House on abolishing the vice presidency. It failed, 85 to 27. Handling succession would be easy. We did it with Ford when we had to ((when Spiro Agnew was forced to resign in 1973)). It was simple. But instead of that method, I'd just reconvene the Electoral College. Under the Constitution, theoretically, they pick the President anyway, and the Vice President. It would give some meaning to the Electoral College...
...minority and women students and faculty applications are down, and why there is such widespread discontent with the administration. Harvard is either too native to recognize or too boorish to acknowledge the blatant hypocrisy and fraud it is engaging in. Harvard is so powerful and rich that it raises serious questions of integrity when the University fails to act progressively--especially since the University need not worry about alumni support or public opinion as other schools must...