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...article on the Udall Caucus in the Eighth District, Marc Sadowsky quoted one sentence from Lorraine DeFronzo which, while accurate in itself, gives a misleading picture of Ms. DeFronzo's position in her community...
...this week's Phoenix there is a story about a fight for control of an important community school council in East Boston in which the ROAR faction was defeated by a more responsible group. The person who defeated ROAR's effort to take control of the council was Ms. DeFronzo, who was elected chairperson of the council over the ROAR candidate, and Congressman Udall is proud to have her on his slate. Barney Frank State Rep., 5th District
Feminism has set a small swarm of lightning bugs flickering, and the Times snuffs out most of them. Ms., for example, is to be used only in quoted material or in discussing the term itself. The stylebook decrees that some words whose original form includes man should remain unchanged: it proscribes chairwoman and spokeswoman on the grounds that chairman and spokesman suffice for both sexes, but it accepts assemblywoman and councilwoman. To "avoid words or phrases that seem to imply that the Times speaks with a purely masculine voice, viewing men as the norm," writers and editors are warned...
Orally, Verbally. Editors at other papers also find that feminism and profanity create stylistic headaches, but few have adopted ironclad rules to relieve them. The Chicago Tribune- uses Ms. if a woman requests it, as does the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Minneapolis Tribune quotes profanity if it is essential for either "meaning and impact" or an accurate description of a speaker's outlook. Los Angeles Times Editorial Page Director Anthony Day crusades against the repeated misuse of certain words (verbally for orally or vice versa, hopefully for one hopes) but goes along with some neologisms. "Part of what keeps...
...year job as a public relations consultant for Iran's national airline. Her decision obviously relieved the Senator, who is both a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a leading advocate of U.S. support for Israel. But some feminists, among them Ms. magazine's Gloria Steinem, thought that the conflict-of-interest problem in the Javits household might have been solved in another way. Said Steinem: "There was never any discussion of [Senator] Javits quitting...