Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ball would have gone in, if one defeat could have gone the other...
...kiss-in" staged in the Mather dining hall bythe student group Defeat Homophobia and theposting of pink triangles in students' windows asa show of solidarity with the gay community havecaused widespread debate...
...involvement in promoting campus-wide dialogue about issues of sexual orientation stems from homophobic reactions to Defeat Homophobia's Kiss-In--reactions which I heard expressed at an open forum provided by the Mather House masters and reactions such as "Harvard Faggots Die" written on a blackboard in Mather late at night. I became even more interested when many students at Mather began to display pink triangles in their windows to show support for the bisexual, gay and lesbian community, and I hoped to use the energy of the discussion at Mather as momentum to create a campus-wide dialogue...
Mitchell said that despite the decision Monday of Southern Democrat Howell Heflin of Alabama to support Tower, the nomination will go down in defeat...
There were many other, more constructive means that Defeat Homophobia could have used in order to further the commendable cause of greater toleration on campus. As it turned out, it unfortunately and unwisely settled on a questionable one, the kiss-in, and then falsely attributed its non-success to "homophobia...