Word: suffixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Illinois' name originates from an Indian word and French suffix which means "tribe of superior...
...great battle of the suffix person is still unresolved. Chairman briefly became chairperson, but many now settle simply for chair, as in "she was the chair of the committee." The problem with person-policeperson, committee-person, showperson-is that it sounds ridiculous. The Naval Academy wisely insists that its women students will be called midshipmen. Person is still acceptable when used independently to designate either a man or a woman. When White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen mentions future Government appointees, he is very careful these days to speak of person instead...
...need to be reinforced with values. Take away the Federal Reserve and its dollar bill is waste paper. Take away meaning and a word is only noise. Changing chairman to chairperson is mock doctrine and flaccid democracy, altering neither the audience nor, in fact, the office holder. Despite its suffix, chairman is no more sexist than the French designation of "boat" as masculine, or the English custom of referring to a ship with feminine pronouns. Chairman is a role, not a pejorative. Congressman is an office, not a chauvinist plot. Mankind is a term for all humanity, not some...
...political power. But Connally is not a man for labels, and party loyalty to him is not the irrefutable ideal expounded by his close friend and longtime mentor. Lyndon Johnson. His dedication to the Democratic Party is not, as Sam Rayburn once characterized his own loyalty. "without prefix, without suffix and without apology." Connally is one to seize on the most advantageous combination of power and people, and in this regard the Vice-presidency under a Republican President may not be so unthinkable...