Word: hating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muzak at 50 is so useful and productive and successful and popular (the company says its polls repeatedly show that more than 85% of its customers enjoy what they get), why do some people hate it so passionately? One reason is simply that they believe this system perverts and prostitutes one of life's greatest pleasures, listening to music. And it probably deadens people's ability to enjoy music that they do listen to by choice. And the whole process is coercive. People who did not want to hear radio music pumped into them on Washington buses carried...
...hate to be cynical, but I think Mr. Patullo is just adopting whatever argument best fits his own narrow world view. In 1982 he wasn't talking about male clubs and institutional sexism, he was speaking against homosexuality Today he supports the right of the Pi Eta to reduce women to animals because, he asks, "is it desirable to make all those ho think such thought feel guilt, a "we see exclusive homosexuality as a disability and believe that society should be structured to encourage heterosexual development." Mr. Patullo wants the Pi to party without guilt, but thinks gay people...
...Harvard students who took part in the most recent test enjoyed the "recreational" part of their job. "I would hate it if they just put your in a hospital room by yourself and gave you drugs," said one participant. "I really like the people I do the testing with and we have a fun time...
Eliot would hate Tom and Viv, an acerbic dramatization of his first marriage that played in London earlier this year and is to open in New York City in January. On the other hand, he might well love Cats, a smash musical hit on both sides of the Atlantic, which uses as its libretto his Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1936). For while Eliot was horrified by the prospect of invasions of his privacy, he also longed for the popular acclaim that not even his most successful plays achieved. He was always at war with himself...
...Eastern colleges. He had never heard of Harvard before. In his small town of Parker, "counselors discourage you from applying to college," he says, "and Anglos tell you you're stupid." He adds that the Klu Klux Klan counts 200 members in his town. Now, whites at home hate him even more, because no one in town has ever been to Harvard, he says. And stereotypes stick: he is called "Mr. Harvard Accent...