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Word: chauvinistic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were to mount a truly University-widecampaign, I'm chauvinist enough to think that ifPenn can raise $1 billion, Harvard can raise $2billion," he says...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Harvard Prepares Funding Pitch | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

...draft policy also calls for a law banning "nationalist and chauvinist" organizations, which could be used against groups demanding independence from Moscow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Party Offers to Change USSR's Structure | 8/18/1989 | See Source »

...party's call for a new law banning "nationalist and chauvinist organizations" could be targeted at pro-secession groups such as the Party of National Independence in Georgia, Russian strikers protesting a new language law in Estonia, or the mass-membership Estonian Popular Front, which supported the language...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Party Offers to Change USSR's Structure | 8/18/1989 | See Source »

...story one of the odd corners of human life, Hwang perceived in it -- or reinvented it to be -- a reflection of decades of megatrends, from the French fiasco in Viet Nam and the waning of imperialism to '60s Maoism in both China and the West, from feminism to male chauvinist backlash. "What interested me most from the start," he recalls, "was the idea of the perfect woman. A real woman can only be herself, but a man, because he is presenting an idealization, can aspire to the idea of the perfect woman. I never had the least doubt that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAVID HENRY HWANG: When East And West Collide | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...pressure group, Christian Leaders for Responsible TV, is making plans to monitor TV programming this spring and to organize a boycott of major sponsors of "anti-Christian" shows. Rakolta's objections to Married . . . With Children managed to miss totally the show's satirical point. This sitcom family -- male-chauvinist husband, unliberated wife, sluttish teenage daughter -- is being lampooned by exaggeration. The same sort of complaints -- just as misguided -- were launched against the bigoted Archie Bunker in the early 1970s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Putting A Brake on TV Sleaze | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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