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Article: Words: Person
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 13, 1999
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1999 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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THE GOVERNMENT has just launched a campaign to make everyone feel
more kindly towards the disabled. "See the person, not the
disability" is its message, and quite right too. But there really
ought to be a better word than person for what the campaign is saying
here. For the funny thing about person is how impersonal it is.
A persona in Latin was a mask, as worn by actors (hence dramatis
personae), which meant that a person was not a real person at all,
and was only impersonating someone else; Shakespeare, for example,
uses it in this sense. Meanwhile other people talked about "a
person" simply to mean someone who wasn't an animal. There wasn't
much individuality about it. By the end of the ...
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Article: Person's frustrations grow.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
March 12, 2002 ;
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... ... start, it gets worse." Bowa said Person could have probably gone another inning, but the manager didn't see the point. "I didn't see anything ... fight his way out of this." When Person's brief and ineffective outing was ...
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