Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFTER an incident of alleged harassment of a homosexual, Defeat Homophobia staged a kiss-in two weeks ago during dinner in the Mather House dining hall. The incident and the kiss-in have provoked widespread debate in Mather House and throughout the Harvard community, which has in fact proved what Defeat Homophobia expected it would--that a great deal of prejudice against homosexuals exists on this campus...
BOTH the majority position and Defeat Homophobia's responses to the Mather dance incident of February 19 unwittingly damage the cause of greater understanding on campus...
Regrettably, both Defeat Homophobia and the majority opinion downplay the fact that the gay student may have indeed been "pushing too hard" in asking the other man to dance--by allegedly stroking his lower back and feeling his buttocks. The reaction to the gay student's advances, the claim is, was fueled primarily by the widespread homophobia that exists on campus...
...devoted to imperial duty. The interment of Emperor Showa, called Hirohito in his lifetime, bringing together admirers of Japan's modern ascent with the rites of a hallowed but controversial past. The burial too of an era that will lay to rest a history of barbaric militarism and shattering defeat, freeing Japan to move into a new age of unapologetic economic supremacy. All in all, it was as haunting and impressive a funeral as the century is likely...
During the runoff campaign against the second-place finisher, Republican home builder John Treen, Atwater sent messages from President Bush and Ronald Reagan urging Duke's defeat. This effort not only failed but apparently backfired. "We resent outsiders coming in trying to influence us," explained Guy Hinton, a third-generation resident of Metairie. Duke, a highly charged campaigner, defeated the stolid Treen by a mere 227 votes...