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标 题: A.Word.A.Day--androcracy(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2000年06月26日10:27:26 星期一), 转信
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androcracy (an-DROK-ruh-see) noun
Social and political rule by men.
[Andro- male + -cracy, government, rule.]
"He cites Mount Athos in Greece,the world's oldest continuous democracy
(though it's really more of a theological androcracy, in that only male
priests get to vote) and the only state still to run on the Julian
calendar."
Lee Marshall, Travel: In Francis of Assisi's footsteps, Independent on
Sunday, Apr 21, 1996.
This week's theme: feminine and masculine forms of words.
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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with
which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first
appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen. -Aldous
Huxley (1894-1963)
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