Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What's the word?" captain Mark Meyer asked as he accepted a trophy on behalf of the Crimson harriers who demolished the likes of Yale and Princeton in the annual Big Three meet yesterday in New Haven...
Part of the problem is wrapped up in the ambiguity of the word, "athletic." There are athletic men and there are athletic women: the word itself is spelled and pronounced the same way in both cases, and yet the separate standards implicit in each make the comparison almost like that one would make between a fast boat and a fast friend. In a situation like a mixed eight, where men and women are not separate, but not equal either, what standard of "athletic" can apply to the team? Can a mixed eight ever work as a consistent unit, a sort...
...they rowed so well that they made it easy for the women to row hard. The women, in turn, rowed so hard, it was easy for the men to extend themselves to their own limits. A team effort such as this defies standard sexist categorizations and qualifications of the word "athletic." It is sad and somehow almost quaint, then, that Steve Herzenberg, in cleverly and astutely trashing the weak women stereotype, can only substitute in the she-man "Big Bertha" stereotype: the concept of a fast mixed eight can be understood only as being made up of four...
Finally, I hate to be one to say "I told you so," but what's the word on the tip of everybody's tongue after "sociobiology"? You guessed it. DEVO. Canada. Think about it. Are we not, then Laura Levine
...young writer buys the family farmhouse. Up on the roof of the barn she cries ecstatically, "Everything is possible. Pass the word...