Word: token
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Modern letters are hasty and utilitarian, usually meant for one pair of eyes only. But by that token the best of them, like Woolf's, are also vibrant with immediacy, intimacy and often indiscretion ("Why," she asks, "is it so pleasant to damn one's friends?"). With her aristocratic sense of decorum she may have felt that their very privacy was what made them unpublishable. If so, she failed to reckon on this age's voracious, ransacking appetite for all that is private in a writer's life. As significant as her novels...
...hearing journalist to Columbia Pictures, where Cheech & Chong will soon film Cheech & Chong's Columbia Project; we'll make those guys answer 20 of the best questions submitted (our choice, and that's final). What's more, Cheech & Chong will send each of the chosen askers a small token of their esteem. Very small. Their choice (don't complain...
...Neill survived with only token opposition. But Majority Leader Jim Wright, who has spent 25 years in Congress and aspires to succeed the Speaker when O'Neill retires, barely beat back a stern challenge in Fort Worth from conservative Republican Jim Bradshaw, who was strongly backed by some wealthy oilmen. But the third man in the Democratic hierarchy, Whip John Brademas, 53, of Indiana, lost his bid for a twelfth term to Businessman John Hiler. The attractive, young (27), conservative Hiler convinced the voters of his district, which includes South Bend, that Brademas, because of his leadership position...
...above suggestions are only temporary solutions. The permanent solution is to alter the power structure and attitudes that lead to violence against women. This includes replacing the present institutional sexism with institutional support of women. One example of Harvard's sexism is the two token women on the police force, brought in to deal with the "woman's issue" of rape; just as women are not token elements of society, women on the police force must not be mere tokens. Harvard must reach out to women, make women students confident and comfortable in seeking their education...
...ambition. It is set in the offices of a woman's magazine that publishes articles on both "Sexual Harassment and the Working Woman" and "17 Ways with Tuna Fish." The boss is an amalgam of famous woman editors - a sort of Helen Gloria Vreeland. But the moment a token male (Lawrence Pressman) joins the staff, the gals go man-crazy...