Word: diatribist
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...lecture on the Manley regime. Better still, he should have been manly enough to ask me directly just what was the nature of my advice to the Prime Minister. This, too, is no secret, since I have published widely on the subject. There was really no need for the diatribist to have cornered one of my teaching assistants and prodded him on my political views. Such behavior is most unbecoming to a Harvard student, even one with extremist conservative views...
...egregious swipe at my teaching assistants is the hardest part of the diatribe to fathom. All three were well prepared, lively, advanced graduate or law school students who enjoyed teaching the course. Whatever their faults, boring they were not; one was even strikingly beautiful. In the light of the diatribist's chauvinistic mockery of Afro-Caribbean religion I cannot help wondering whether his real problem with the teaching staff was the fact that they were all Black...
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