Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strayed from the path which its feminist founders envisioned for it. No longer is the magazine an irreverent, politicized bible for the women's movement. Instead, it has become a version of Cosmopolitan--with a pseudo-social conscience...
Different sensibilities, certainly. But women do not rate gardening and miniskirts as pressing social or political issues today. And advertisements which degrade women, portraying them as sex objects and adhering to stereotypical sales pitches, do not belong in a magazine that purports to espouse feminist politics...
After all, with candidates given only a minute to sum up their positions on such complex issues as arms control, the budget deficit, or the Middle East, the debates make simplistic slogans like "no new taxes," abortion is murder," and "I won't touch Social Security," seem acceptable. No candidate who actually hopes to win will dare say that he will raise taxes to bring down the budget deficit, or purposely bring up any other issue of substance. Despite professing sympathy to the needs of all Americans, candidates often seem to adopt the condescending attitude that by speaking in vague...
...Bush, Associate Professor of Economics Lawrence B. Lindsey, one of the vice president's top economic advisers, said this week that he might consider a move to the capital. Lindsey, who counsels Bush on a variety of taxation issues, is the head section leader for Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," which is one of the College's largest courses. And professors said this week that contingency plans are already in the making to replace Lindsey should Bush tap him for a Washington position...
Last year, Newsweek published a cover story titled "Brothers," which chronicled the reunion of 12 black men who grew up together in the Robert Taylor Homes. In 1962, when it opened, the housing project was a highly-touted social experiment, and a real opportunity for low-income Black families--a way out of the slums and tenements controlled by greedy white landlords. Brothers is the expanded, book-length account of the lives of these 12 men, and tells their compelling stories with a depth that was missing in the otherwise excellent article...