European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the Tarsan stripes february 1981 time of Man the barricades language is under attack by Hugh Mulligan a to the defenders of free and precise Man the before you have to per son the language vandals Are at the Gates in san Francisco a serious move was afoot to change the name of Fisherman wharf to Fishe persons if we can Boycott those states which have not ratified the equal rights Maurice Kic Boit wrote the Board of us How can we continue to turn the other Cheek in the area of using Public monies to advertise and extol the Virtues of a sexist tourist attraction Wiebolt was identified in the news Story reporting this As president of the cites Citi Zens advisory panel on it was not Clear whether he had his Tongue in the Cheek he was no longer willing to because in that part of the country you can never it was in san Francisco that an ardent Fem Inist campaigned to change the designation of sewer ids to person Hole lets Hope both desexed usages blew out to sea with the morning otherwise that Lovely City by the Bay will find itself in the same ridiculous situation As the democratic convention in new Yorks Madison Square afraid of the feminist word mincers in their midst people who mince words have suddenly become important the dems got into a terrible quandary Over whether to adopt such compromising coinages As chair la Madam chairperson or they finally settled for just dehumanizing and unseeing people to the Point where they became inanimate granted there was much wooden oratory in that once and perhaps future seat of but going around calling people chairs and having them Gavel the Hall into silence reduced the proceedings to the mad hatters Tea party in prime at one a congressperson from Massachusetts was suddenly turned into a Tempo Rary which must have come As a sur prise to her John the thought the outer Bounds of feminist pedantry had been reached when a letter writer in Magazine signed in with i protest the use of the word Testi Mony when referring to a woman because its Root is in which has nothing to do with being a Why not use Ovari Mony Why not Peter the got so carried away with desexed Job designations he found himself referring to the phone Serviceman As a Telephone line person tree in a recent writing pamphlet put out by the associated press managing editors Organiza a journalism professor seriously advised editors to unisex their language by referring to firemen As in other words if a the male of the ladder climbing Falls off a roof or on officer retention Vou mean to Tell that Vou sp6mt million of4 a study to find out wow the army what were they didst the Mike rescues a Kitten from a newspaper writ ers should refer to him As a firefighter rather than offend the sensibilities of de sexist pres sure Here is a journalism professor asking us to be less precise in our to be vague deliberately about the sex of people involved in for the Sake of sexless har dont laugh if you feel so inclined but there is a Book on the Market devoted to instructing editors and Public speakers in How to Bowdle Rize the rid it of its male in ways that would Shock the spats off Thomas the 19th Cen Tury prude who set out to take the sex out of Shakespeare and made a historic ass of him the handbook of no sexist writing by Casey Miller and Kate Swift urges persons employing the language in Public places to do a skillful rather than a Workmanlike Job in cleaning up their speech so that in the future a Fisherman becomes a a Gateman is predesignated a Gate tender and a craftsman ends up a a Young nun told me recently she was of fended by Ronald reagans opening his inaugural address with my fellow americans and his Choice of the hymn god of our a she eagerly awaits a new translation of the Bible by progressive Catholic and protestant theologians that will rid the scrip Tures of sexist brother or the fatherhood of god and the brother Hood of Man Are in deep linguistic in a probable rewrite of Matthews Lovely will encounter Simon and an two Fishe persons of unidentified along the shores of Galilee and offer to make them Fishers of the language luddites would pull Down the Temple to change the prayer writing on the Academia is Way out front in this sort of Gene who writes an Amus ing about town says he received a circular from his old Alma mater telling about preparations to receive incoming fresher there is a moral in All this watch your there May be ladies if dont let sex has gone Back in the closet in our across 1 Shade tree 4 cooking Herb 9 Neon 12 Meadow 13 babylonian hero 14 before 15 the Black Olive 17 narrow Inlet 18 instrument for Arthur Godfrey 19 Law Tennis player 21 son of Poseidon 24 Assam silkworm 25 Capek opus 26 scotch negative 28 intelligence 31 wading Bird 33 Jujube 35 location 36 Beau 38 brother or sister 40 kind of lace 41 hawaiian Herb 43 Woodland deities 45 canine tooth 47 Wii area 48 picnic pest 49 cooking utensil 54 Indian 55 the Choice part 56 in Barcelona 57 Moo 58 facing Glacier direction 59 oscillate Down 1 sprite 2 Irish sea god 3 West or Murray 4 signal by gesture 5 ancient greek City 6 Paulo 7 senseless 8 los Angeles basketball pros solution time 27 answer to saturdays 9 a creeping South Afri can Plant 10 opera feature 11 author Ocasey 16 eccentric person 20 Bonds 21 Spruce 22 country lout 23 nourishing dish 27 overhead railways 29 for one 30 morays 32 Street sign 34 crosses 37 ignores 39 laves 42 mature 44 also 45 the great Omentum 46 preposition 50 Pedros Uncle 51 solemn Promise 52 women lib goal 53 wooden pin today crossword Onn Landers dear Ann Landers the holi Day season is Long but its still not too late to get this off my maybe it will help someone think straighter next How Many grown children were too Busy last december to visit their parents How Many its too expensive maybe Well go next year if either of your parents died and you received a phone youd suddenly drop everything and go to the you somehow youd find the time and How much better to go when the old folks can enjoy you and have the pleasure of knowing you cared enough to put everything aside and i wish i could turn the Calendar Back and do a few things differ my parents never had the thrill of seeing their first and now its too Hindsight in new Jersey dear 2020 thanks for a let ter that is sure to hit some peo ple where they if 2020 was talking to clip this look at it again next november and make your dear Ann Landers i have some advice for the wife of the Here it is make sure he has All the life insurance he can possibly any Man who works seven Days a week and Hast had a vacation in four years is sure to keel Over with a heart you can yell your head and it wont make any ask i was married to be i want and it was a big As soon As you get out of your widows you can go Back to school if you feel like join an exercise get a buy some Nice clothes and take a dont feel a those crazy hours he was putting in were for his own it had nothing to do with you and the with the territory dear familiar life insurance is a Good idea whether you Are married to a Workaholic or not Bard work never killed its the stress and Strain that give those Over achievers slump of the pump especially if they Are overweight and sorry to be such a but some people need to hear it again and dear Ann Landers an elderly acquaintance found an old violin that has been in the family for Many glued to the inside is a paper bearing the following inscription Antonius Stradivarius Cremone Sis Facie Bat Anno 1 with a picture of a this woman is of limited Means and needs to know How to determine if the instrument is an can you recommend a trustworthy party in or near who can help for a Friend dear asking i never put one Reader in touch with an your Best bet is to go to the Public Library and ask the librarian for books on rare Vio there you will find much information and pictures of legitimate if your Friend has an original Stradivari she should ask the conductor of the local symphony for guid even if it is not an Origi it could be very
