Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next month Mother Jones, one of the country's last bastions of crusading left-wing journalism, will introduce a dramatic redesign aimed at attracting new readers. Earlier this year Ms. magazine, feminism's longtime standard- bearer, revamped itself in an attempt to broaden its appeal. Both magazines have turned in part to a sure-fire formula: celebrity journalism. The current cover of Ms. features a moody photo of Meryl Streep, while Mother Jones inaugurates its new look with seductive Susan Sarandon...
While the Soviet schedulers drew up the standard list of New York City tourist attractions -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Trade Center, Broadway -- Gorbachev also accepted an earlier invitation: to visit the brass- and-glass high-rise office-and-apartment complex and atrial shopping mecca on Fifth Avenue, and enjoy a private dinner with megabuilder Donald Trump and his wife Ivana. Does private mean just the Trumps and the Gorbachevs? Trump, who was called directly by a Soviet official, says, "It seems that...
...unfortunate that a fellow Jew, Joshua M. Sharfstein in his opinion piece "A Higher Standard," not only relies, but proudly admits to relying upon the same detructive double standard which Israel's enemies utilize, in their attempts to render illegitimate the existence of the Jewish state...
...accordance with his misguided understanding of Israel's legitimacy, Sharfstein misinterprets the widespread response to the "who is a Jew" issue. The American Jewish community did not unify in the name of a "higher standard" but rather for an equal standard. The supporters of the new law hope to hold Jews all over the world to a "higher" orthodox standard. In doing so, they wish to judge Judaism in the same way that Sharfstein judges Israel. For this they are condemned...
...realization that even in the face of 40 years of Arab aggression, Israel has not only remained free and democratic, but also fully modernized, industrial, learned, cultured and proud, should not cause observers such as Sharfstein to hold Israel to "A Higher Standard." In proving that external threats do not justify internal repression, Israel has indeed been a "light unto nations." Yet it must never be judged as such. Criticism of Israel is a healthy sign of democracy; few people criticize Israel more than the Israelis. Yet such criticism should not be waged indiscriminately, as Sharfstein suggest. Jews...