Word: abhors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...Adam Webb '93, former president of the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM), explains the "welcome" conservatives receive with a hypothetical: "It's your freshman year and you come from a traditional community. You come to a place where people abhor your entire way of life--your desire to have a wife and kids, your belief...
...from lobbying allies on a plan to bomb the Serbs to discussing the formation of a U.N. peacekeeping force, the Bosnian Serb parliament scuttled Vance-Owen, 51-2. All the disagreements that a peace plan might have papered over were back. France and Britain, with troops on the ground, abhor air strikes just slightly less than permitting Bosnian government troops to receive arms, which they fear will only expand the war. Congressional leaders pledged to support Clinton, if he could convince the American people; the polls indicated they needed convincing...
...military's reluctance to enforce the president's order to incorporate gays into the military is further evidence of its excessive power. After four months, the military still has not made an effort to overturn its policy. Instead, it trots out soldiers to say how much they abhor homosexuals. Who's in charge here? When did the president cease to be the commander-in-chief? Did someone forget to replace Bush's picture with Clinton's in the Pentagon lobby...
...consider themselves the sole proprietors of oppression) with regards to the subject of clawing your way to success while overcoming every possible obstacle. After all, if we succumb to knee-jerk, P.C. condemnation of General Powell, we will indeed be practicing the one thing we all claim to abhor: intolerance. Jon-Peter Kelly...