Word: tokenisms
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...unfeeling, detached egghead but a passionate, somewhat elusive human being. When his wife Martha died in 1782, he wrapped a lock of her hair with a scrap of paper containing an excerpt from the couple's favorite novel, Laurence Sterne's comic masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, and stashed the token in his desk. Four years later, while serving in Paris as Minister to France, he fell in love with a married painter, Maria Cosway. The relationship didn't last, but before it ended, Jefferson wrote Cosway the longest letter of his life, a fanciful, romantic conversation between his "Heart...
...rooted in such biblical verses as Paul's observation that "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence." Technically, admits S.B.C. official Richard Land, "we can't tell a church who to hire." But by the same token, he says, "that woman's church cannot tell the International Mission Board who it can send on its missions...
...native of Columbus, Ohio, Pierce jokes that he was the “token legacy” in his blocking group because his father is the alumni interview chair for central Ohio...
...even if I didn’t always show it. So then I got an internship through a minority sportswriting program, and I lived in Buffalo for a summer working at a professional paper. There, I was on the sidelines among the white male reporters, regulated to both the token Asian and token female roles without any say in the matter. I worked hard, trying to prove myself, perhaps thinking every now and then that I could be a trailblazer for all womankind...
...with—there’s more to life than grades, extracurriculars and, yes, sports. I may have been motivated at certain times in my sportswriting career by different forces. I have filled the role of the little sister, the overachiever, the bitch and the token Asian-slash-female. I’ve done all that, and I wouldn’t trade those memories for the world. But after all the cat fights, production problems and mediocre copy that I’ve churned out, I know that those small roles add up to one big payoff...