European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns trend must be dropped posthaste by Ellen Goodman Boston a Friend of a Man who chases the cutting Edge of change the Way his gallic ancestors once pursued the holy tells me that he is now Post this int a formal mind that int i already knew that Yuppie com was in selected Urban woman have burned their Bow begun leaving their running shews at Home and grown defensive about ordering White wine men arc increasingly secretive about owning Vars and embarrassed to have the espresso machine right out there on the Kitchen it was inevitable that my who along with two others Are probably the reigning troika of i rends i suspect they have a new York Magazine reporter permanently would be Early in and Early out of so what struck me was not the fact that he was in a Post Yuppie it was the fact that he was using a Post Yuppie with nary a warning from the traditional trend spot it appears that the postwar babies of the postindustrial society have begun placing their favorite prefix All Over the american these arc the four Little letters Post which once meant As in but now they Are being used to write premature political consider the academic who recently Drew a profile of Middle class Young american they he told a the implication was that these voters had already been through the heavy ideological they were not hostile to they were beyond perhaps they taken it freshman ideology was a bit like a it was but they  want to get stuck with it when something better came last the big phrase was any Young woman who had not personally signed up for Radical feminist cell 16 was called a member of the Post feminists the Label managed to Wear Date the women movement so that it seemed a Fashio feminism itself was described As something the country had like a singed training putting the four letter Post before the right sort of word is the kiss of the word becomes a per Rich gone Flat in the but it does this in the most apparently Neutral sort of consider the Man i heard on the radio talking about the needs of americans in the  the what separation of Church and and free he went on were All splendid but what do we need for the 1980s then there Are the commentators who talk about the Reagan pos welfare instead of what they mean the ant welfare world and a pos verbal once a 35yearold described himself to me As a Post i did not at that moment have the nerve to ask him whether he currently was into i suppose there might be some modest value in this i think it would be amusing to be pos Tyoung instead of reformed smokers could become atheists could choose to be vegetarians could be retired the rest i would leave to but i am wary of linguistic Post is being sprinkled through the political language More generously than the dreaded Neo Ever if my Friend wants to be Good Luck to in his trendy troika the Yuppie has gone the Way of the Babbit and the i dont care if he stops serving Shiitake mushrooms the Way he once quit on there is hardly any social judgment to be made Between Chitakes and no one really cares if we live in a Post Kiwi world i the Kiwi but i get uncomfortable when we turn ideas into when we trivialize concepts and values into games of ins and when literacy and civil rights Are treated like Nouvelle cuisine and new wave its time to write a postscript to the Era Label it c Boston glob Washington Post handle collective nouns care by James Kilpatrick a sentence comes to taken from an article in new York Magazine about Bill co Anchor of the lbs morning a rash of stories in the Chicago Media have reported that Kurtis Doest like his new co Phyllis the question is whats the proper verb has or have my vote is for on the theory that in this instance rash is a collective meaning a great number of instances in a Short and thus should be treated As a plural having cast my let me add a word or two collective nouns have a terrible Way of tripping us into tangles of How do we handle such words As majority and family the answer is that we handle them As if we were drying the Good we handle them with at least within the same piece of one Rule of general application teaches to use the singular unless there is some grounded in to go with the plural it is the numerical meaning that controls the if we Are writing about a court of three the majority hold but theres nothing wildly objectionable in an overwhelming majority of of All Ages and occupations and income evidently believe where we get into trouble is in such constructions Missouri has lost its a american quarterback for the Nebraska but they will have a promising replace ment in if we Are going to begin with Missouri we have to end with it will the Best advice comes from Wilson Follett in modern american in his admirable discussion of the trouble with he remarked that problems of this order Are not to be but it is much easier to write in the plural of team or or legis than to Brood All night Over whether a rash has or a rash Odds and ends in their new edition of the Harper dictionary of contemporary William and Mary Morris have a sniffy entry on for it is they and is used Only facetiously by careful i am willing to accept that judgment for the but i wonder if the idiom int worming its Way into respect Able the Miami for one appears to Sanction the for free is Shorter than the stiff and formal without and conveys a slightly different meaning Jackson gave his Talent for free is a Clear and vigorous Jackson received no compensation for his appearance May be but its Fie on the and Agency serving Kodak full Page ads depicting a boy with a toy sword and shield carry the caption he just slayed his last slayed the past tense of by is an and for Pauls candied yams lets us know that the yams come not in an Venable Venable i know of but Venable is a new one on an and for Kelloggs bran buds says that everyone needs fiber in their if 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