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CURRENT ISDOM the money to promote the group and try to increase attendance at its meetings. Duane Long Jr., an ISU senior and Cuffs' president, said receiving the money was a big step....
...But it seems to me it's the best way to begin, when it's simultaneously devalued and invaluable...
...November 6, 2003) York Times McCarthyism recrudescent...
...The F word is not an expletive, but an ideal—one that still has a way to go...
...Otherwise Duke University wouldn't find itself concentrating on eating disorders and the recruitment of female faculty...
...There have been no purge trials, executions or sentences of exile...
...But the world hasn't changed as much as we like to tell ourselves...
...Cuffs dissolved last year, but members now are trying to resume their meetings...
...Duane Long Jr., an ISU senior and Cuffs' president, said receiving the money was a big step...
...More particularly, he was the president of white males, many of whom characterized themselves as "angry," "innocent," and "victimized" by reverse discrimination...
...December 1973 issue) New Republic A strange literary creature caught inhabiting one o TRB's wonderful columns: Income distribution in America is violently unequal...
...December 1973 issue) DECEMBER 2003/JANUARY 2004 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 79...
...Midst a lamentation on the sad fate ofCBS's "The Reagans," a gifted editorialist at the venerable Times fords the positive uses ofred-baiting: But it is also hard to believe that CBS was unable to edit the series into a form suitable for broadcasting...
...People say it's inappropriate, offensive, that it puts people off...
...November 5, 2003) Newsweek Scientific findings on the condition of feminism ("the F word") from Miss Anna Quindlen, as related by her in the pages of Newsweek unassisted by editorial counsel or even a translator: Let's use the F word here...
...Otherwise the governor-elect of California wouldn't be a guy who thinks it's "playful" to grab and grope, and the voters wouldn't ratify that attitude...
...His supporters credit him with forcing down the Iron Curtain, so it is odd that some of them have helped create the Soviet-style chill embedded in the idea that we, as a nation, will not allow critical portrayals of one of our own recent leaders...
...there is no guarantee against the development of totalitarian attitudes in the White House...
...It's almost clinical," he said...
...g1' A chilling crnalysis of Nixonian Amcrica by the UPI's Nichol, Daniloff Kremlino7oy ist and fictioneer: For this former Moscow correspondent...
...The former president is certainly a suitable subject for public debate...
...October 20, 2003) Re ings for Alumni Weekend (Yale Law School) The fortieth president of the United States is accorded his rightful place in history by a learned prof greeting alums of the Yale Law School during a reeducation weekend arranged for them by the faculty: Ronald Reagan was very much the president of white people...
...Long said members keep their clothes on during demonstrations...
...Otherwise "The Feminine Mystique" wouldn't feel so contemporary...
...Receiving the money is a triumph for diversity," he said...
...From "Exploring Michael Omi's 'Messy' Real World ofRace: An Essay for 'Naked People Longing to Swim Free" page 47...
...Part fair game, part perfection: that's a tough standard for 51 percent of everyone...
...It would not have had to be favorable to Mr...
...CURRENT ISDOM the money to promote the group and try to increase attendance at its meetings...
...Feminist, feminist, feminist...
...October 31 - November 2, 2003) From the Archives Timeless tosh from Current Wisdoms past: St...
...Reagan, or even rigidly evenhanded, to be worthy of running...
...But there are some startling similarities...
...How dispiriting it would be to those long-ago heroines to read of the women at Duke focused on their "cute" reflections in the eyes of others...
...The first women's-rights activists a century ago set out to prove, in Friedan's words, "that woman was not a passive empty mirror...
...Of course, the degree to which White House officials may have been guilty of totalitarian attitudes is far less than in Stalin's Russia...
...Feminist...
Vol. 36 • December 2003 • No. 7
