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Social acceptability is a function of which group controls society and to what extent minority voices can influence the spectrum of opinion. Just as racist ads of 50 years ago were socially acceptable to a white-dominated society, so are sexist ads today threatening to females who, despite the women's liberation movement, still have a long way to go to gain equality...
...could support them now." The station, owned and operated by the church, broadcast the names of prominent Marcos officials who, emboldened by Ramos and Enrile, announced their resignations. Among them: Postmaster General Rogelio Golez and General Ramon Farolan, the Philippine Customs Commissioner. "I don't think the government can function," said one high-ranking Marcos aide. "It's a very tenuous situation...
Sorenson says he did not think that the incident at Berkeley would affect Skocpol's ability to function at Harvard. "I don't think it will have any impact on her relationships with colleagues here," he says...
...institute always hoped that the Review would be a different kind of journal. Institute staff members often told me that they wanted a magazine that was closer in spirit to their conferences--in which well-known policy-makers would hold forth in print. They never appreciated that the primary function of the Review, at least in our eyes, was to provide undergraduates with a place where they could learn how to write an essay, to edit, to solicit subscriptions: where students could experience working on a political magazine. The institute, I believe, wants to transform the Review from a forum...
...structures: hives, crowds, nests, colonies. They suggest hierarchies and sometimes conflict. But all this is decidedly muffled, submerged so far in the paint that it hardly works as allegory. Winters does not want to make his images specific: "I want them to trigger multiple readings, so that they somehow function above and below language, not exactly on the line." But some of his titles, like Dystopia (the reverse of Utopia: a failed society), 1985, leave no doubt that rumination on the human order is meant...