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Thomas frames his book around a series of events that rocked the HLS campus in 2002. The free speech crisis began when a 16-year old first-year law student—a prodigy named Kiwi Camara— submitted class notes to a school website that included the epithet “nig” as an abbreviation for African Americans. After one student complained, another student sent an anonymous e-mail to many members of the freshman class in which he complained about the response of African Americans to Camara’s email, adding that...
...years, British mini-series from venerable fiction have been packaged in the U.S. in a series called Masterpiece Theatre. Merchant-Ivory films, exhibiting the same good breeding and measured pacing, became known as Masterpiece Cinema. The epithet was derisive, but it carried an implicit acknowledgment that the noble lineage of stiff-upper literature was now wholly in the care of the boy from Bombay, the kid from Oregon and the Polish-German lady who'd married an Indian. Merchant, Ivory and Prawer Jhabvala were like the servants who'd been bequeathed a ducal castle just as its ramparts were crumbling...
...think the epithet is completely undeserved,” Irving said, adding that American publishers have refused to print his books since the controversy...
...Dick novel Flow My Blood the Policeman Said, which examines the links between semiotics and the DJ culture. The name “Spooky” refers to the eerie interplay between the absence and presence of sound, whereas his “That Subliminal Kid” epithet refers to a character from William S. Burroughs’ Nova Express...
...Shakespeare of the sound-byte, the sucker punch, the hyperbolic epithet. His 1994 Rolling Stone obituary for Richard Nixon, whom he loathed, was titled “He Was a Crook”; his catchphrase was “Fear and Loathing.” With language, he was a fetishist, a libertine, drunk on whiskey and the utter extravagance of his writing...