Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DRAWINGS OF RICHARD DIEBENKORN, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. A full-scale survey of the West Coast painter's works on paper, offering a rich view of his abstract and representational periods. Through...
...news when they provided no briefings for their captive audience. On the ground in New York City, Soviet good intentions faltered as reporters were dumped unceremoniously on the pavement outside the United Nations, one hour late for the first Soviet press briefing. When Gorbachev abruptly headed home to survey his country's earthquake damage, TIME Moscow bureau chief John Kohan hitched a ride to Armenia aboard an American mercy flight and happily avoided another trip on Glasnost...
...joking aside, though, the survey results reflect a very serious problem in our society. Since it requires two people to give the same response for an answer to go up on the board, it is frightening to consider the answers that were not listed. "Get a job" or "Help support the family" were said by fewer than...
...most plausible explanation, however, is that the survey is a pretty accurate representation of what American men think--at least in their initial thoughts about gender relations. The survey is similar to word-association games in that it records only the first response. With unconscious sexism still so pervasive in our society, even among the well-intentioned, it is possible that a large majority of men would say something sexist when they respond before thinking...
Sexism is clearly a problem, but things may not be so bad as Family Feud makes them seem. The response that most men I know had when I told them what happened on the show was to ask "Who the hell did they survey?" Far more men at Harvard would give a reasonable response, simply because many of us have been made aware of unconscious sexism by our peers...