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		<title>&#8217;60s American culture altered communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathan Bierma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When did the term &#8220;rhetoric&#8221; become an insult? When did the word cease to mean artfully crafted speech and start to convey scorn, as it does when we hear a campaign speech and mutter, &#8220;That&#8217;s just rhetoric&#8221;?
The answer is 1965, says John McWhorter in his recent book, &#8220;Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language [...]]]></description>
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