Word: detestability
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...firecracker in a pair of bluchers, a woman the shape of a cigarette, with energy to burn. Winifred runs to get a drink of water. "I have no real hours," she says. "If I'm here, fine. If not, tough luck." Calling ahead doesn't always work either. "I detest telephone-answering machines. I put the phone by the door and leave the door open and hope I hear it, but you never know...
Nevertheless, I managed to detest one of my "roommates" as much as if I actually lived with him. I shall call him Alan. He was a blond, blue-eyed bisexual from Long Island, a high cheekboned boy wonder at whose door many a frosh female threw herself. In one month he used up as many Trojans as I had in my entire life. That we shared a thin wall is indubitable proof, I think, of one of the following two propositions: (1) there is a God, and He is a Bastard; or, (2) Harvard matches roommates to maximize malice...
...have a simplistic and unyielding world view: that America's anti-communist ideology is intellectually immature and therefore our wars against communism are immoral crimes against humanity. Yet I have never heard anyone describe such militarily isolationist views as "reasonless xenophobia." It seems that the same people who so detest Sylvester Stallone's simplistic analysis of the world especially approve of these movies. If the film simplistically denigrates and villifies American values and actions, it is proper and laudable. If it simplistically glorifies American values and institutions, then it is reprehensible and deserves intellectual castigation. How happy I would...
...things I detest...
...Ellen McCormack, the pro-lifer who ran for President, she should remember the anti-war activists who ran for elected office during the Vietnam War, and the Black candidates, including would-be Presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson, who are beginning to assert their political power. Like most people, I detest all special-interest groups; to single out the anti-abortion movement in an attempt to defame it is capricious, malicious, and an excellent example of the adage "People in glass houses...