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  • Language Police Bar 'Old,' 'Blind' in Textbooks God is also a banned word in the textbooks

    05/30/2003 2:17:48 PM PDT · by certify · 28 replies · 668+ views
    Reuters ^ | Wed May 28, 2003 | Arthur Spiegelman
    Language Police Bar 'Old,' 'Blind' in Textbooks Wed May 28, 2003 11:01 AM ET By Arthur Spiegelman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oh heck: Hell hath no place in American primary and high school textbooks. But then again you can't find anyone riding on a yacht or playing polo in the pages of an American textbook either. The texts also can't say someone has a boyish figure, or is a busboy, or is blind, or suffers a birth defect, or is a biddy, or the best man for the job, a babe, a bookworm, or even a barbarian. All these words...
  • Language police bar 'old,' 'blind'

    05/28/2003 9:54:28 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 37 replies · 189+ views
    Reuters ^ | Wednesday, May 28, 2003
    <p>Oh heck: Hell hath no place in American primary and high school textbooks.</p> <p>But then again you can't find anyone riding on a yacht or playing polo in the pages of an American textbook either. The texts also can't say someone has a boyish figure, or is a busboy, or is blind, or suffers a birth defect, or is a biddy, or the best man for the job, a babe, a bookworm, or even a barbarian.</p>