Word: correspondents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memoranda submitted to the Review Committee, Martin Kilson, professor of Government, Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, and Dean Epps urged that mandatory joint faculty appointments and joint concentrations be initiated. They did oppose student participation on the Department's committees. The recommendations of the Review Committee correspond quite cloudy to those offered last year by Azinna Nwafor, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies...
...Drogheda team scored six fourpoint tries and four two-point conversions in a game they completely dominated. A try is similar to a touchdown in football, and conversions correspond to the point after touchdown kick in football games...
When it comes to eternity, the practical-minded Japanese have always figured it is wisest to hedge all bets. Consequently their ceremonies of miya-mairi, which correspond to Christian baptisms, are traditionally Shinto, and their funerals are traditionally Buddhist. Now, increasingly, the Japanese are taking to being married in Christian ceremonies. This year 10% of all Japanese marriages are expected to take place in Christian churches-complete with white wedding gown, preacher, organ music and flowers-even though only 1% of Japanese are baptized Christians. At least 36 Protestant chapels in Tokyo cater especially to the "outsiders," but some couples...
...have already begun teaching black children the rules of Standard English as though it were a foreign language, but Dillard and Stewart would go even further. They argue that such children should first be taught to read Black English, so that what they see on the printed page would correspond to the way they talk. Stewart's organization, in fact, has produced three experimental reading books-Ollie (see box, below), Friends and Old Tales-in parallel Black English and Standard English versions. In theory, once the child masters the principle of reading, Dillard writes, "transition to the reading...
...form of address, the feminists have decided to be called Ms. (pronounced miz). In spite of all the jokes about Ms. standing for manuscript and mail steamer and master sergeant, it is fast becoming both a symbol and a fad. Ordinarily nonpolitical and conservative businesses, publications and organizations that correspond with women are having to make the big decision about whether to switch to Ms. Women's Wear Daily has, Vogue has not; the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has, the White House...