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Word: sexists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many Harvard students were angered by what they viewed as sexist comments by the Nobel laureate...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Watson Says Law Cannot Handle Genetic Engineering | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

Fortunately, there are many who refuse to believe that the stifling racist and sexist social order of that time is something we should aspire to re-create...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 9/29/1999 | See Source »

Maggie (Julia Roberts) runs a small-town hardware store. But she's more famous for leaving her bridegrooms at the altar. Ike (Richard Gere) is a newspaper columnist who writes a piece exaggerating her escapist exploits in terms sexist enough to get him fired. Are these people meant for each other or what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Altar Egos | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...woman, I should embrace the politically correct change. After all, the Harvard that sang only of its sons is one that didn't want me in its lecture halls or libraries. It's very different now, of course, but why would I want to keep these sexist lyrics in "Fair Harvard?" Why do I possess this seemingly perverse loyalty to such an otherwise inconsequential phrase? I know Gilman was not thinking of Radcliffe women when he wrote the line, I know that generations of male Harvard students never even thought about the meaning of these words for the other...

Author: By P. PATTY Li, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CAMBRIDGE | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...woman, I should embrace the politically correct change. After all, the Harvard that sang only of its sons is one that didn't want me in its lecture halls or libraries. It's very different now, of course, but why would I want to keep these sexist lyrics in "Fair Harvard?" Why do I possess this seemingly perverse loyalty to such an otherwise inconsequential phrase? I know Gilman was not thinking of Radcliffe women when he wrote the line, I know that generations of male Harvard students never even thought about the meaning of these words for the other...

Author: By P. PATTY Li, | Title: What's in a Song? | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

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