Word: hatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession... You have taught us more than anyone I know how wrong it is not to mix it with emotion, hunger, desire, lust, whims, caprices, personal ties, deeper relationships that change its color, flavor, rhythms, intensities...
Heskett says, "I would hate to see a siege mentality develop--right now the only thing we're besieged with is applications." No one--least of all Bok, who praises the Business School throughout his report for its leadership in new fields--is laying siege to the idyllic lawns and halls across the river. But the Business School administrators must not only answer Bok's criticisms with internal discussion and reform, but also try to let the public know they are responding. If they fail to, the public will have nothing to base its opinions on but its suspicions...
...apply his doctrine to Prof. Cudjoe. Notice that he doesn't say we are like the South Africans because we are white, but because we are bourgeois. Prof. Cudjoe is undoubtedly a bourgeois, or at least a petit bourgeois, by virtue of his Harvard salary. Is he supposed to hate himself because he so much resembles an Afrikaner...
...quest for God, man compares himself to his surroundings and to others. Chitrabhanu says this comparison leads either to a superiority complex or an inferiority complex. The former alienates man from everyone else, because he feels arrogant and insults his fellows. The latter causes feelings of worthlessness and self-hate which manifest themselves in gossip and criticism of others. The temptation to succumb to ego is subtle and deadly, Chitrabhanu emphasizes, likening it to an exam: "You have worked the whole year, and when the exam comes, if you become sick or you become upset or you go to sleep...
...hate feeling hyped, and my instincts are to be less favorable to her because of all the publicity (the same way I'll never buy a product with an especially obnoxious TV commercial). Then again, look at all the free publicity I just gave...