Word: epithets
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...says he has now been branded a "black hand" by provincial party officials?the epithet used for labor leaders of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square. His fall from favor underscores the frictions that accompany China's uneven efforts to modernize. While the country has progressed economically, its authoritarian government has not made the same progress in building open and accessible political and legal institutions. Concerned about a rise in mass protests, Beijing continues to promise change. An annual meeting of the party's Central Committee last week concluded with calls for "social harmony" and a commitment to "ruling...
...people attended a fraternity party with their faces painted black, provoking a university investigation, the Cavalier Daily reported. Then, on Feb. 26, 2003, Student Council presidential candidate Daisy Lundy, who is black, had her head slammed against the steering wheel of her car while her attacker shouted a racial epithet, according to the Daily. In response to the incidents, the university created a commission to investigate issues of race and college and community life in September 2003, Wood says. The Commission on Diversity and Equity issued a report in 2004 and its recommendations are posted on the university?...
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...