Word: hates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then last year, after all those seasons as a Cowboy fan, I asked myself why I was one. I couldn't come up with a good reason, so I decided to hate them. Actually, there are a lot more reasons to hate them than to like them...
...decided to hate the Cowboys because they call themselves America's Team. I don't like the ring of that, it sounds fascist. And because all the players act so damned glad to be there--if they don't act that way they get traded...
...have declined so frighteningly, they must have been higher at one time. I do not believe algebra has become that much harder. It is well known that American high schools are graduating many students who simply cannot read. People who cannot read cannot be expected to learn algebra. I hate to see a subject of such precision and beauty being translated into third-grade terminology just to make it accessible to those who are not able to appreciate...
...would appreciate the importance of the famous Crystal Palace as a cultural rallying point, as something more than a mere "journalistic" symbol. Most of all, Nabokov seems insensitive to Dostoevsky's vast and sympathetic humanity--a quality he singles out and apotheosizes in Tolstoy. How indeed can Nabokov hate a novelist who owed so much to Gogol, and who was so close in spirit to Tolstoy...
...Nixon, the evidence had been there a while), but because he had been upstaged by trial lawyer Joseph Welch in the Army-McCarthy hearings. Or possibly, people simply grew tired of McCarthy and his tremulous voice, tired of him as they grow tired of over-exposed rock musicians whose hate-filled music finally becomes stale and offensive...