Word: grievous
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This charge would be hilarious if it weren't so grievous. There are about as many Israelis who want to tear down Aqsa and build the Temple as there are Americans who believe they've flown on UFOS. Secular Jews view the idea of rebuilding the Temple as loony; religious Jews, as sacrilegious. (Only God can rebuild the Temple.) Yet the Palestinian Authority echoed this incendiary libel, calling on Palestinians "to express their anger" over this "aggression on al-Aqsa mosque" and "desecration of the holy places...
...College, thereby placing a black woman in an important administrative position. These readers were appalled that The Crimson staff accused this same man of convincing "the student body that he held them in contempt to a degree most of us usually reserve for people who have done us some grievous wrong...
...question and express his concerns to them without bitterly assigning blame. All Lewis has accomplished by acting in this manner is to further convince the student body that he holds them in contempt to a degree most of us usually reserve for people who have done us some grievous wrong in the past...
What we could take away from the grievous events is a grasp not of the Unabomber's psychology but of our own, which is full of fantasies. The Unabomber had hoped to move against technology--which does need slowing down--but he did it from a hidden place. That annulled the act. Oddly enough, his isolation as he fought technology is comparable to the isolation that surrounds the people who are consumed by technology. It's possible that the men and women who give themselves to technology as the ultimate solution are living out a fantasy as deep...
...committee of the Harvard Alumni association that brought this proposal to the Harvard Corporation for adoption exhibited a grievous lapse in its humanistic awareness. it failed to understand that the humanity of black folks--and by extension of other systemically ravaged modern peoples such as Tutsi folks, Jewish folks, Armenian folks, etc.--should not be trifled with. --Martin Kilson Thomson Professor of Government