Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Luther King Jr. in his arms immediately after the civil rights leader was slain should give one pause. That he has never honestly explained or apologized for his anti-Jewish quip about New York City as "Hymietown," or that he failed to unequivocally denounce or distance himself from the vicious preachings of that Fruit of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, should give one a sense of extreme anxiety. As Henry Adams noted in his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, it used to be in this country that we held it as a matter of principle to elect those whom we considered...
...color-blind. Most American painters, in McElroy's view, put racial stereotypes in their work. These were usually negative. "Prosperous collectors created a demand for depictions that fulfilled their own ideas of blacks as grotesque buffoons, servile menials, comic entertainers, or threatening subhumans," McElroy writes in the catalog. "This vicious cycle of supply and demand sustained images that denied the inherent humanity of black people by reinforcing their limited role in American society...
...sexually assaulted by several white men. But when the press did embrace her, it quickly figured out how to make the facts fit the mold. Though some reporters grew skeptical of her story early on -- and were later vindicated -- the media initially made Brawley not only a survivor of vicious violence but also a popular honor student whom racism had subjected to unimaginable agony...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynz eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
...They're one of the best teams in the country right now," said Brown Coach Bob Gaudet, whose squad tied the Crimson last November before suffering Harvard's most vicious offensive explosion since an 18-0 thrashing of Cornell in 1958. "Skillwise, they're the top team in the ECAC. They could challenge for the championship again...