Word: detestable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detest violence of any kind, would deem it an honor to be in the firing squad to mete out their just due to the murdering cowards of the C Company of the 11th Infantry Brigade. My only regret would be that I would not have the advantage of the element of surprise that these merciless killers had in the slaughter of the innocent people...
...whole point of Washington is the symbolic confrontation, the possibility of violence we detest but feel we must not run from. The public still isn't interested in what we have to say: Politicians and the press talk about parade permits and troop concentrations; they still find it newsworthy that the demonstration will give aid and comfort to the "enemy." Violence may make the public close their ears to us, but nothing we can do will make them listen...
...also the classic exemplar of the winetaster theory of literature. Saintsbury, indeed, wrote with equal learning and authority on poetry and port but, alas, as if they were the same sort of thing. Pundits who teach poetry as a matter of the palate-or of professional gain-naturally detest and fear a creative man of letters like Ezra Pound, to whom poetry was a passion in which the soul was engaged in mortal questions of great consequence. Sir Edmund Gosse, for instance, a pompous Edwardian booktaster of great influence and reputation, once referred to Pound as "that preposterous American filibuster...
...worth one-half of Eldridge Cleaver's bail," Miss Stanley said. "I wish I were." She added that the judge in yesterday's hearings declared "I detest people like you who are trying to destroy America...
...cannot bring themselves to foresake old Democratic loyalties for George Wallace or Nixon. Yet the New Politics ethic--stressing as it does principle--hardly lends itself to the task of building alliances--a job which most often requires pragmatic trade-offs of the kind which reformers tend to detest...