Word: grossers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among us readers are those who wish we could be spared the grosser facts of life. We'd just rather not know, if you please, about Congressman Mills' private matters. They disappoint us, disturb us, make us feel insecure. Oh for those blissful days when the press was less candid about people in the news...
...Metropolitan Opera and the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. By now it is only fair to hail Harris as an acoustics virtuoso. Harris' secret, if it can be called that, is to stick as closely as possible to classic European models like Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinssaal. That means a rectangular shape, plenty of wood and plaster, no concrete or vinyl, and a minimum of carpeting and plush upholstery on chairs. Harris has made his chairs of oak and carefully tested foam cushions. He has even installed individual lockers in access corridors to encourage dowagers to leave...
Eventually, as the evolving natural paternalism of colonialism attacked slavery, tribal warfare, illiteracy, and some grosser forms of oppression, a westernized class of Africans arose. In this segment of westernized Africans--which generally came to resent both exploitation and paternalism--the roots of nationalism in Africa began to arise in the 20th century...
...exposing the absurdity of the administration's charges at emphasizing the political justifications for the Littauer sitin and at pointing out the politically repressive nature of the disciplinary process. It's true that relatively few objections were raised by Prof. Paul and myself to some of the prosecution's grosser tactics, such as persistent cross-examination of witnesses on material unrelated to their testimony; attempts to prejudge my "guilt" for the Committee; insinuations that I had prior knowledge that Wilson's office door would-be broken; and the refusal to drop the breakage charge although it could not be substantiated...
...black women are portrayed as naive, frivolous, or insane. The women in the Shaft films are merely repositories for the super-stud's semen. And as if there aren't enough real monsters to contend with in the ghetto, the king of horror films. American International, has a top grosser in Blacula, a movie that features Shakespearian actor William Marshall as a black vampire...