Word: epithets
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...there soon would be. During a 1913 Friars Club tribute, Berlin's predecessor and rival George M. Cohan described Berlin as "a Jew boy who named himself after an English actor [Henry Irving] and a German city." One can read as much affection as coarseness into the Irishman's epithet. Vaudeville and pop songs of the period were full of spiked ethnic jokes (Jewish, black, Irish, Italian); they were the hot bubbles from the American melting pot. To the musical brew Berlin was happy to add Hebrew, as in his 1909 song "Yiddle on Your Fiddle Play Some Ragtime...
...Randall Kennedy ?puts a tracer on nigger,? in order to identify its use and analyze the controversies to which it has given rise. With unprecedented candor and insight he explores such questions as: How should ?nigger? be defined? Is it more or less hurtful than any other racial epithet? Should blacks be able to use ?nigger? in ways that others should not? Should the law view ?nigger? as a provocation strong enough to reduce the culpability of a person who responds violently to it? Should a person be fired from his or her job for saying ?nigger?? What methods...
That fateful day, Saif received his first hate mail. For Yassine, it was an epithet later that day at a soccer game where he was harranged with the slur motherfucking terrorist by the opposing goalie. This was after Yassine himself had called for a prayer at the beginning of the game to remember victims of the tragedies. I ignored it, and told the captain of the other team about it, Yassine said...
...months last winter, Phillips and friends spent 16-hour days in Beijing helping craft key documents. When the International Olympic Committee sent an evaluation crew to grill the committee, Phillips and his team suggested answers the Chinese might have muffed, such as making them omit the usual "evil-cult" epithet from comments on the underground Falun Gong spiritual movement. Phillips even solved Beijing's dreaded puppy problem. Many Chinese eat dogs, and dog farms import the frozen sperm of St. Bernards to breed quick-growing canine roasters. Beijing officials were certain that Swiss visitors would protest at seeing their rescue...
...months last year, Phillips and friends spent 16-hour days in Beijing helping craft key documents. When the International Olympic Committee sent an evaluation crew to grill the committee, Phillips and his team suggested answers the Chinese might have muffed, such as making them omit the usual "evil-cult" epithet from comments on the underground Falun Gong spiritual movement. Phillips even solved Beijing's dreaded puppy problem. Many Chinese eat dogs, and dog farms import the frozen sperm of St. Bernards to breed quick-growing canine roasters. Beijing officials were certain that Swiss visitors would protest at seeing their rescue...