Word: absurd
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While it may be absurd and naive to extract from a small pool of Harvard students the beginnings of a general nationwide trend, it is quite likely that some genius will do so in order to argue that American college students have emerged from their self-absorbed visions of money and grandeur. Be on the lookout for some "Latest on the Nation's Campuses" feature stories proclaiming a "New Generation of American Students...
Dukakis made these absurd accusations credible by his refusal to take them seriously. On the Pledge, he did not angrily grab the flag back and say it belongs to all Americans and he would defend it always, but constitutionally; he just cited Massachusetts' highest court, as if putting a footnote in a law- review article. On the A.C.L.U., he did not get indignant that the honor of good people (people who had, by the way, sued him as Governor of Massachusetts) was being impugned. Protectors of civil liberties should not be mistreated, any more than his own wife should...
Lone and Chen at least had the good fortune to end up in a film that was an intelligent depiction of Chinese history. When Asian-Americans do get parts in Hollywood films they are almost invariably stereotyped. Who can forget the absurd "Long Duck Dong" character in Sixteen Candles...
...Stop Witholding Access Today (SWAT) that the gender discrimination at the clubs is an issue of basic civil rights, the issue is identified with liberalism on campus." The implication of this statement--that because SWAT's cause is a liberal cause it is not a civil rights cause--is absurd. Liberals have long been champions of civil rights, conservatives long opponents of it. (Just take a poll of civil rights activists asking which side they're on.) It was not that conservatives of this country who championed the fight against racial discrimination. The greatest civil rights leader this country...
...come on. That's absurd. The Republican strategy as you well know was developed way back in the spring. Bush was making speeches attacking me in May. Look, everybody expects a certain amount of jabbing and poking at conventions. I mean they had their convention. I don't recall that it was a "kinder, gentler" convention the way it painted Mike Dukakis, do you? The last kinder, gentler period in the Bush campaign was just terminated after 24 hours...