Word: streets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delighted in debunking the "booboisie," is being debunked himself. An abridged version of his diaries will arrive in bookstores this month. In journal entries written between 1930 and 1948, Mencken emerges as a hypochondriac with an anti-Semitic streak. In one passage he noted that a house on his street had been bought by "some Jews . . . with various ratty tenants." In a segment that the editor omitted, Mencken referred to two Baltimore businessmen as "dreadful kikes...
Many women -- and fur-wearing men too -- are starting to think twice before they shrug on a fur and nip off to the office or the grocery store. Ever since she was called "animal killer" on the street, Susan Singer, a Manhattan executive, has been ambivalent about wearing her fur coat. So is New York department-store employee Suzanne Pandjiris, who still wears her mink but fears attacks by protesters. "It makes me nervous," she says...
...with impeccable credentials and outstanding reputations. The tenure system insures it. And that, in itself, is a problem....the system discriminates against young academics; it favors the "big name" over youthful vigor and potential...In essence, junior faculty at Harvard are traveling the academic equivalent of a dead-end street, and that creates a morale problem...First, Harvard should start hiring minorities and women--not just make noises about how it's trying very hard...Second, departments should begin appointing young, promising scholars. Finally--and most importantly for undergraduates--the Faculty must place far greater emphasis on teaching ability...
...Reagan tax breaks weighted in favor of the rich, the cuts in social welfare programs, the statistics on the growing inequality of income distribution in the U.S. and the routine tales of Wall Street corruption defined, for many Americans, the ethos of the 1980s...
Every few hours, when one of the local stations reruns It's a Wonderful Life, George Bailey reruns down the main street of Bedford Falls, wishing Merry Christmas to Old Man Potter and the Emporium and the Savings and Loan...