Word: written
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...Mencken, the iconoclastic journalist who delighted in debunking the "booboisie," is being debunked himself. An abridged version of his diaries will arrive in bookstores this month. In journal entries written between 1930 and 1948, Mencken emerges as a hypochondriac with an anti-Semitic streak. In one passage he noted that a house on his street had been bought by "some Jews . . . with various ratty tenants." In a segment that the editor omitted, Mencken referred to two Baltimore businessmen as "dreadful kikes...
This editorial was written in April 1984, after the Pi Eta Speakers Club published a newsletter containing derogatory references to women. President Derek C. Bok and other administrators issued statements condemning the letter. Nine months later, the University cut ties with the Pi Eta and the nine all-male final clubs...
...right? Reagan or me? According to a famous saying inscribed on the keychains of many evil dictators, it depends on which of us wins. After all, history is written by the victors...
...Quayle wins, the history of the '80s will be written in short sentences with lots of simple words. America is good. You can do anything you set your mind to. Hello, my name is Dan Quayle. (Note: If Quayle wins, history will become the gut major...
...POLITICAL economy of the '80s will also be written by its victors. Democrats will de-emphasize the control of the House of Representatives over the budget process, and Republicans may pretend their presidents never singed any budgets. Perhaps if Ronald "no recollection" Reagan wins, the eighties won't be remembered...