Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another explanation students offer for thepresent Law School peace is good, old-fashionedpublic relations work. Dean of the Law SchoolRobert C. Clark has done successful spin control,they say, even while substantive change is stilllacking...
...this is utopian dreaming. If we were to leave off argument and think kindly for a moment, on the premise that men and women will go on mixing with one another in the current mindless and anarchic way, we might spin the thought that good can come of each sex thinking the best of the other, and might see the converse truth: that only bad can come of each one thinking the worst. Tolerance and decency are creative, civilizing traits. A rising standard of expectation -- a mutual hope, a sympathetic mingling of desires -- will lift all boats. Quite a long...
Thus one interpretation of current gender sliming is that it is the work of the usual American overstimulation and culture-by-spin-and-tablo id -- the commercialization of the id. Life on the ground continues, more or less as usual, while the sky is lit up with bright video games of rhetoric...
...culture of spin, attitudes churned up by mere hype may take on an enduring and powerful life of their own -- in the economy, in the culture, in government and law, in people's lives. That is why the attitudes of one sex toward the other need to be looked...
Want to increase your profit margin? Forget those market studies. Trash the upscale ad campaign. Fire your spin doctors. And start listening to those silent consumers who never queue up in front of the case register: the shoplifters...