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Although there were a number of more perceptive blacks who sensed a new direction was needed, they were cowed into silence as the old guard struggled to keep its hold, finally losing its grip on black students thinking after they prevented whites from attending a speech by Ms. W.E.B. Du Bois at Sanders Theater during the 1970-71 school year, Ms. DuBois denounced the students' actions, and it became clear that the old black leadership had outlived its day. At the next Afro-election, a member of the Class of '74--the first class not present at the University Hall...
...woman are Out; the neuter "person" is In-and only the chair is allowed to linger undisturbed. Chairperson is just the latest exchange in that great linguistic bazaar where new terms are traded for old. The elderly "Mrs." and the shy "Miss" now curtsy to the crisp, swinging "Ms." "Congressone" has been suggested in federal corridors to replace the Congressman-woman stigma...
Lexicographers Ms. Casey Miller and Ms. Kate Swift recently amplified the Women's Lib party line: men have traditionally used language to subjugate women. As they see it, William James' bitch-goddess Success and the National Weather Service's Hurricane Agnes are products of the same criminal mind, designed to foster the illusion of woman as Eve, forever volatile and treacherous. The authors therefore suggest the elimination of sexist terms. "Genkind," they think, would provide a great encompassing umbrella under which all humanity could huddle, regardless. Varda One, a radical philologist, asks for the obliteration of such...
Jencks has been twice married and divorced (his second wife was the Ms. and New York feminist writer Jane O'Reilly). He cares little for teaching or administration, being chiefly interested in new ideas, which he spins out almost continuously. Even while reading the final galleys of Inequality, he was making computer runs of data to double-check possible new interpretations. His next project will be a two-year, Carnegie-financed study of alternative ways of bringing up children, which will be conducted at the Cambridge Institute, a think tank he helped found...
...kiosk now offers the only out-of-town news in Cambridge in addition to magazines, papers, and books which span most nationalities and interests--from Frau, Madame, and Ms. to Playboy and Sexology to Brides Magazine and Ladies Home Journal...