Word: grossest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even raise the comparison without detailed discussion as Mr. Farber has done, it appears to me is the grossest of rhetorical tricks and an almost total retreat from the types of social and historical analysis which a university should be all about. Such a comparison raises the issue of ultra-colonialism in Angola to the status of a natural phenomenon, obscures the reasons for bloodshed in places like Burundi and Uganda and contrasted with Portuguese Africa, and conveniently gets rid of white racism, responsibility, and guilt Further, the comparison is even more invidious given Mr. Farber's own failure...
...TIME and Reich are both wrong. The Consciousness III generation is naturally childlike, since the preceding generation pressed upon it the spoils of the grossest self-consciousness and social unconsciousness that any generation has ever manifested; the "natural piety" TIME sees youth struggling for is simply the fear of growing up. TIME errs, however, in ridiculing the assumption that man is inherently good until corrupted by society; in a world in which some unscientific assumptions must still be made, man's basic goodness is possibly the most positive and urgent of them all. If we cannot believe that, given...
...deaf ears. An hour before the bombing, the Japanese raiders were detected as blips on a primitive radar screen-and were dismissed by American officers as "our B-17s." As a compound tragedy of omission and commission, the events leading down to Dec. 7 could provide the grossest scenarists with a wide-screen epic. Those, apparently, are the ones 20th Century-Fox hired...
...After his death in 1827, about 400 Conversation Notebooks were found. His Boswell-the devoted but officious Anton Schindler-collected them all, then destroyed about 260 as unimportant, uninteresting or, in the case of two books of conversations with a violinist whom Schindler despised, because "they contained the grossest and most boundless criticism of the Kaiser and Crown Prince. . . ." Schindler sold 137 books to the Staatsbibliothek (State Library) in what is now East Berlin, and there they lay for more than a century. A previous attempt to publish the notebooks got as far as three volumes, but was halted...