Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women, wielding power is often difficult for what amounts almost to aesthetic reasons. Men, even if they are martinets, are rarely called bossy, and there is no epithet for men that is quite the equivalent of "bitchy." "Power is a tough issue for women," says Columbia Associate Professor Ethel Klein, author of Gender Politics. "Taking power is aggressive. It's not 'nice.' " Thus, for virtually all women, suggests Klein, Ferraro's nomination "is a watershed." Such a ripple effect, buoying women who are outside the narrow channel of politics, may finally be more significant than...
...fame, among them Novelist John Hersey and Essayist John McPhee. Recalls Hersey of his first TIME job, which paid $35 a week in 1937-38: "I got to know a lot of famous people, some of whom were dead." McPhee, whose term was 1958-59, still remembers a favorite epithet, "roadside gourmet," in an item on traveling Restaurant Critic Duncan Hines...
...resident high marks from the department, but his unusual interest in poultry also earned him the name "Captain Chicken" from some of his friends. Nevertheless, Anderson was one of the first to do research on the dispute which, he says, "no one has any clue about." Despite the strange epithet he received from his friends. Anderson has turned his knowledge into a possible job: he is up for a job as confidential adviser to the Undersecretary of Agriculture for International Affairs...
...Critic Susan Sontag has pointed out, cancer unjustly serves as a metaphor for the monstrosities of our age. In human discourse, it is the epithet for all that is demonic, mysterious and implacable in the experience of man and society. Given this aura of dread, these two serious books of medical popularization-the first is subtitled The Inspiring Stories of People Who Conquered Cancer and How They Did It, the second is an account of a pioneering leukemia treatment-represent significant acts of demystification...
Charles Franklin Thwing (Harvard Class of 1876) once said about the two institutions that "Harvard stands as the mother of movements, and Yale as the mother of men." That epithet best sums up the comparative images from the colonial days through the Derek C. Bok-A. Bartlett Giamatti era. The older school pioneers educational reform, the younger cares about who it's educating, or so the perception goes...