Word: graving
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...Harvard Crimson, in its issue of March 17, offered an apology to the Third World community in which, essentially, it refused to apologize. While acknowledging that one blatantly racist act was a "grave mistake," The Crimson denied any systematic racism on its part. Evidently The Crimson is confident that its members are automatically unaffected by the racism which so thoroughly infects American society simply because they desire not to be racist. The Crimson is apparently confusing opposition to the idea of racism with an immunity to racism itself...
Blessed are those who struggle to survive Oppression is worse than the grave Better to die for a noble cause Than to live and die a slave. The Last Poets...
WHEN THE CRIMSON two weeks ago printed a picture of two Black students with bars superimposed, we unquestionably made a grave mistake--both a wrong against the two individuals and an insensitive act to Blacks in general...
...Resolution 465, on Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, might not strike the casual reader as an inflammatory document. Yet in the arcane world of diplomacy, its language is unusually severe. It "strongly deplores" the settlements, calls them "a flagrant violation" of the Fourth Geneva Convention and cites "the grave consequences" that this Israeli policy may have on attempts to negotiate a permanent peace in the Middle East. The resolution is also rife with politics-laden buzz words to which Israeli officials and their American-Jewish supporters are particularly sensitive...
Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., professor of Government, said at the meeting he has "grave apprehensions" about the worth of courses that stress practical over intellectual pursuits...