Word: hating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That might be said to be the paradoxical trademark of Graham Greene: that he rarely gave himself the benefit of his unending doubt, and that he invariably gave the men he was supposed to hate his best lines. He saw the folly, and the frailty, of everyone around him. Thus adulterers come to feel compassion for the husbands they're cuckolding; victims see the human side of their criminal tormentors; Fowler in The Quiet American comes to mourn the death of his rival in love and opponent in politics (schadenfreude in reverse, you could say). Even when he was writing...
...betray another. As he put it in The Power and the Glory, "When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . When you saw the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination...
...last year (2 million) as fax machines, that isn't saying much. And from the moment it was passed, its effectiveness has been at issue. People who love it are worried about loopholes like the ``private dealer'' exemption, which makes flea markets into gray markets for handguns. People who hate it say it burdens lawful gun buyers but not criminals, who get most of their guns illegally...
...complement this agenda of hate, the current leaders of the Republican Club have also taken to excluding and attacking fellow Republicans who do not hold precisely the same views as they. Standing for the equality of men and women, of Blacks and whites, means being blacklisted by the leaders of the Republican Club. Believing that homosexuals are people entitled to the same respect and rights accorded to all human beings means being labeled a "homophile" by the club's leadership. Supporting the right of a woman to choose in the matter of abortion means subjecting one's self to public...
During my four years here on campus I have run into this mentality quite a bit. Many students at Harvard simply want to fold each segment of the campus away into a nice little box and then hate or praise each box according to their own prejudices. One of the most maligned boxes is "Republicanism," and according to what people say about that box, it should be subtitled "Pandora...