Word: hating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent a year in the Gate City to the South, which was then still known to some as the Dogwood City, around the time it was trying to become the City Too Busy to Hate. That's the way people in Atlanta might think of it, and that's the way I think of it. We share a weakness for slogans. This was at the beginning of the '60s, and I was a reporter covering the civil rights story. Those who traveled the South back then -- reporters or regional auditors or salesmen with the Southeast territory -- came to roost...
Although the City Too Busy to Hate is a motto associated with the beginning of Atlanta's desegregation, the sentiment it expressed -- what I always thought of as Babbittry over Bigotry -- has been a dominating sentiment at least since 1886, when Henry Grady, one of the founding fathers of Atlanta boosterism, expressed his dreams for a New South. When I lived there, the tension built into its attempt to become the City Too Busy to Hate was apparent. Although what it had to sell was its connection to the South, its national ambitions called for a constant struggle to escape...
...resentment at privilege began to boil, and still simmers today. "I really dislike snobs," he growls, "pretentious people who mistreat people who have to work for them. I hate them." This anger congealed into a hard-edged populism as Bennett took a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Texas, then served as a dean of liberal arts at Boston University, all under brilliant, acerbic John Silber, who was then undergoing a conversion from liberal to born-again conservative...
...Allan Bloom ((author of The Closing of the American Mind)) is a brilliant man, very good for higher education. But much too despairing. He doesn't see the happiness and spontaneity of American life. I hate that prissy crap where he's anti-rock 'n' roll...
...entire book seems to indicate that religion works its magic best when it evidences itself in a conversation between two people searching to learn about each other. One would hate to see this spontaneous spiritualism traded in for a designated time of quiet. It is equally discouraging to see it so quickly forgotten or belittled by Coles in his eagerness to have school prayer legalized...