Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggest that one night be set aside for a battle-of-the-sexes program? The aggressive husbands meet aggressive wives for a real bash; meanwhile, the poor battered husbands and wives could relax at the Roseland Ballroom...
Some critics suggest that lawyers write laws in undecipherable language to guarantee employment for future generations of lawyers, who will be the only people capable of understanding them. There may be some truth in that, but the fact is that a complex society tends to need complex laws ?ones that will effectively keep factories from polluting rivers, employers from discriminating against minorities, meat packers from stuffing sausages with sawdust. Besides, as Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan points out, "If you use an old form, something that is hard to read and is really antiquated, the chances are that...
...these developments promise only cosmetic change. More thoughtful reformers suggest that fundamental changes are necessary to keep the legal system from being finally overwhelmed by the growing tide of suits. Such ideas necessarily involve a de-emphasis of the venerable adversary system and a reduction in the influence of lawyers. Among alternative methods proposed for resolving disputes...
...make any difference in students' lives anyway. As Ralph B. Potter, professor of Social Ethics at the Div School, says, it is difficult to judge whether ethics can be taught at all. "Courses are great for disseminating ideas, he says, "but ethics must be assimilated through reflection. We cannot suggest to the public that we are going to turn out better people, for there is a mystery to what makes the ideas happen in people's lives...
This is a time in history when women, in increasing numbers, are expressing their uncensored perceptions in many fields, creating quarterlies and presses, finding confirmation and insight in each other's work. It is deeply offensive that, in a lecture to student writers, Mr. Riesman should suggest that any woman in his audience lay down her pen and take up the diaper and the broom, in order to enable men, once more, to wield unchallenged the power of words. Cynthia Rich