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...prowomen, are put off by it, imagine other people." Or imagine a sympathetic parent, particularly a father, leafing through the beginning of a feminist guide to child rearing and banging a shin on the following parenthesis: "(See Chapter 24 for a full discussion of language as an exclusionary tool of male supremacy)." Imagine getting to Chapter 24; imagine turning the page...
...Washington dispute began in September 1978, when Seattle (pop. 493,000) became the largest U.S. city to bus students voluntarily for racial balance. Two months later 66% of the state's voters endorsed Initiative 350, which prohibited local school boards from requiring busing as a desegregation tool. Seattle school officials went to federal court and won the right to continue busing, which was proceeding peacefully. But opponents of their plan took the issue to the high bench and picked up the support of the Reagan Justice Department...
...East-West Trade Policy Committee, Shultz has been an advocate of maintaining steady commercial relations between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. In a 1979 article attacking President Carter's restrictions on technology transfers to the Soviet Union, Shultz wrote, "We cannot use trade as a tool designed to alter the domestic politics of other countries." The incoming Secretary also met Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev twice in 1973, to discuss ways to increase trade between the two nations...
Contrary to those people who decry the additional connotative meaning of words, I see the "loaded" quality in words as one of the great beauties of language. These rich subtleties are what make language a highly descriptive and meaningful tool of communication...
...difficult at this juncture, though, to distill that series of events in a more precise fashion-to figure out just how much of it had to do with the idiosyncrasies of this University, with the fact that it tool place in 1980, and with my own personality. My guess is that although a seasoned alum might be able to discern what was characteristically Harvard (or, I suppose, Radcliffe) about what I did from January 19th to the 21st, 1980, my classmates would be best at imagining how I felt at the time. Even those who weren't Crimson editors could...