Word: abhor
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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...
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This is unlikely to happen. First of all, most people abhor the idea of removing taxes on corporations. After all, in the mind of anti-globalization leftists, they are the engine of all the world’s ills. Even Kerry seems somewhat muddled: in a comment in the Wall Street Journal a spokesperson for Kerry said he “wants to make America more fair, so that average Americans don’t have to pick up the tab for corporate-America profits.” What politicians fail to remember is that people own companies, and many...
...counterproductive. As a retired colonel who served in the Italian army for 35 years, including several U.N. peacekeeping missions, I can tell you that only those who have never personally been in a combat situation want war and seek it. People like me and Vietnam War hero John Kerry abhor it and would do anything to avoid it. Hurrah for George Soros! Vincenzo Iannelli London...
...crass will question the utility of a store devoted to selling poetry, and praise the invisible hand that slowly strangled the hapless business, squashing an enterprise that prospered through the Great Depression and under nine U.S. presidents. We abhor this attitude. Too much of Cambridge’s history is being lost for the embrace of this blasé worship of capitalism—red in tooth and claw—to be permissible. In 2000, the historic Bow & Arrow Pub served its last pint, culminating a decade of the Square’s cultural decline. In 1992 customers literally...