Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sooner does a generation unlearn a racial epithet than the stigma loses its sting. Consider, for example, the burgeoning controversy over the title of a new Western film. The Legend of Nigger Charley. Paramount released the movie with the "historical explanation" that the character of Nigger Charley was based on black cowboys who roamed the West after the Civil War -a period in which the term was in common currency and not necessarily derogative. But Charley's well-documented credentials failed to satisfy a number of newspaper, television and radio advertising executives. For example, the Oregonian first changed...
...representatives of the liberal establishment. They have a very nice, clean-cut liberal veneer. The President of Harvard never called anyone a nigger. But the same Harvard President would participate in the exploitation of the resources of the people of Angola, which is just as bad as a racial epithet. And you have got to make that clear...
...will admit, under slight pressure, that she has never really cared for the epithet "male chauvinist pig"; though she tried it on for size a few times, and though she felt a certain heady sensation of power while using it, she has come to see that it is not really her style. She has had two abortions, both premarital and illegal, and she sends contributions to organizations like the Women's National Abortion Action Coalition-but, enclosed with her check is a request that her name be withheld from the printed list of donors. She reads Sylvia Plath...
...Ever the epithet king, Loeb lumps "Moscow Muskie," McGovern and John Lindsay together as "leftwing kooks." Richard Nixon, whom Loeb supported in 1960 and 1968, has become a "foul ball" and "the great devaluator." The rupture with Nixon came over the impending China visit. Nixon, says Loeb, "has devalued our chances of victory against the Communists by cuddling up to the Chinese Reds and the killers in the Kremlin." He calls Henry Kissinger "a tool of the Communist conspiracy." A Loeb editorial warns that "another four years of Nixon could only be considered a calamity for the nation." Conservative Republican...
...gooder is not everywhere an epithet, and charity remains a vital force. Fortunately, there are many Americans who still practice it. Indeed, there are indications that it is returning to vogue in new forms. All kinds of people are looking for alternatives to the big, impersonal welfare state; the communes of the young, for example, a novel institution in modern America, could not survive without direct, highly personal human interdependence...