Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Driving with friends along a Hollywood highway, I heard a tirade against bad drivers. Or, as they called them, "Those stupid Mexicans." A Spanish street sign gave way to a discussion about the prevalence of Spanish-speaking people in parts of southern California. Or as they called them, "Those stupid Mexicans...
...Bad food and desires to impress members of the opposite sex were cited by some as among factors that motivated students to take to the streets. No doubt, on the margin, both factors could have played a role. But they cannot constitute even partially sufficient--not to mention necessary--explanation. Without much better information than those quoted in the piece, I venture two reasons to reject this explanation...
...first reason is that bad food and making an impression on members of the opposite sex have been, as far as I know, perennial concerns of college students; but relative to these concerns, student demonstrations of this character have been extremely rare in communist China's history...
...WERE IN MY Plymouth, on the expressway, passing a red weedfield that was going to be subdivided into a housing tract, when Junior asked to be let out. I pulled onto the berm and stopped. A bad wind was throwing paper and Dixie cups around...
...brilliant," said Kim I. Gutschow '88. But she added, "He wears a fur coat. I didn't think he'd have bad taste...