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(Mar. 09, 1992) Died:S.I. Hayakawa
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Mar. 09, 1992 Fighting the Backlash Against Feminism
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 64
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<p> DIED. S.I. Hayakawa, 85, outspoken semantics professor who,
while acting president of San Francisco State College in 1968,
faced down rioting students and became a hero to conservatives;
in Greenbrae, Calif. In 1941 Hayakawa published Language in
Action, a best-selling introduction to semantics. Although
sympathetic to demands for a black-studies department at San
Francisco State in 1968, Hayakawa defeated protesters' attempts
to close the campus. Sporting his trademark tam-o'-shanter, he
climbed atop the demonstrators' sound truck and ripped out the
wiring of their loudspeaker. As Republican Senator from
California from 1977 to 1983, Hayakawa advocated a lower
entry-level minimum wage for teenagers, but was known mostly for
dozing through briefings. He later led the movement to establish
English as the official language of the U.S.
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