Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...express my displeasure . . ." Adding to the turmoil was the fact that the Carmelites had revised their charter at Rome's initiative. The Vatican, complained an exasperated nun, "has summarily dismissed an experiment which it ordered these women to undertake, and is now accusing them of infidelity for doing...
...rally has been very orderly and appropriate, and I think it's appropriate that the University and College preserve the rights of the members of our community to express themselves on grave and important matters like apartheid in South Africa," said Assistant Dean of the College Mack I. Davis...
...Italian Jewish novelist Prime Levi, who has devoted much of his life to trying to express what he witnessed as a prisoner at Auschwitz, has written that "our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man." When we write of radical evil in the world, we can record the details of its existence, the facts about its operation, but we cannot translate the darkness itself. More words betray...
...restate the facts about apartheid and refuge the illogic of the University's rhetorical evasions, our words cease to "express the offense, fail to communicate the ongoing demolition of a people. As South African police set dogs loose on schoolchildren and as Black activists get taken away in the middle of the night, we at Harvard get bogged down in rhetorical diversions, "progress" reports, committee minutes, media ploys, the whole debilitating bureaucratization of the debate. The issue loses its moral cogency...
Further, Muslims have degraded and humiliated Oriental and Sefardic Jews who are the majority of Jews in Israel for the better part of a millennium. The PLO is merely the modern expression of traditional Islamic Jew-batting. When Blacks express sympathy for former Muslim oppressors who specifically state (usually in Arabic) that they intend at least to become current oppressors of Jews and other non-Muslim minorities. Blacks forfeit any right to sympathy because they have been oppressed...