Word: sexists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...level that hasn't been seen in several years. The general excitement across campus about the divestment movement, we hope, will change people's attitudes about political activism. Hopefully people will transfer some energy to other issues like Reagan's Central American policies, Harvard's atrocious labor relations, and sexist attitude toward hiring and treatment of female faculty," says Evan O. Grossman...
...women remember many of their instructors as sexist, 1960 alumnae interviewed say that was not at all the case with their fellow Harvard students. The Radcliffe women presented fierce competition for grades--as can be seen in many quips about them in issues of The Lampoon and The Crimson. "Our class was smarter than the boys because only three of use out of 300 graduated without honors, and there was a much larger proportion, of then," Hohenberg...
...know my father." Says a former Iacocca colleague: "He believes in reprisals for his enemies." In the book, Henry Ford is depicted as venal and mean, an almost unbelievably unappealing character. Iacocca asserts that his former boss was paranoid, vulgar, personally extravagant at company expense, cruel and sexist. Many former and current auto executives, including Iacocca's friends, think he was wrong to carry the vendetta so acidly into print...
...rest of the movie follows a somewhat predictable Romeo and Juliet plot. Morgan retains his interest in Frankie; Nick is a jealous, violent sexist who regards Frankie as his personal "property" (which he calls her to her face several times): the respective families are suitably insensitive to the budding love of their offspring. The important scenes are almost all clashes of Nick and his henchmen with Morgan, and they are quite incredible in their high level of tension, fear, and brutality...
Ralph: These are certainly deep waters, Wanda. As your local representative of the uptrodden gender, I frankly had no idea that cheerfulness was a sexist plot. If I correctly recall our last 42 arguments, you have been telling me that men not only have trouble expressing their feelings, they may even be emotionally tone deaf. Wouldn't it be logical for you to argue that women , smile more because they are less blocked emotionally, not because niceness is a symbol of servitude...