Word: hominem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current debate, not surprisingly, is a mixture of genuine academic debate, ad hoc hominem vitriol and political fulminations. Many scientists and non-scientists accuse Wilson of falling prey to the "naturalistic fallacy:" what exists helps the species survive and is thus right...
...Vegans perceive Greenspun as something of a menace himself. His ad hominem attacks offend some readers. Others recall his 1940s public relations work for "Bugsy" Siegel's Flamingo Hotel and wonder if Greenspun is still friendly with local mobsters. "That's the goddamnedest, most fabricated lie," he says, and points as proof to his occasional diatribes against organized crime. Adds Greenspun: "When you live in this town, you're rubbing shoulders with every facet of society...
...style, including both the adoption of a new mode of dress as a defiant act as well as the repudiation of verbal communication--"flicks rather than books." "The murky McLuhanism lurking around was a direct challenge to the identity of faculty members," many of whom were attacked in "ad hominem" terms, says Heimert...
...list be complete without those sparring partners Cozzens (James Gould) and Cousins (Norman), the author of By Love Possessed who was by Macdonald savaged and the editor of Saturday Review/World? (When Macdonald called Cousins' magazine a "honeypot of banality and deep-stuff' for openers, then went ad hominem, his wife told him he "shouldn't attack Cousins personally.'' It's a wise wife who knows her husband...
...wrote the legislation permitting the Alaska pipeline, he is the only member of the Senate who has received the Sierra Club's John Muir award for his efforts on behalf of the environment. His own political conduct is punctilious; he does not indulge in inflammatory rhetoric or ad hominem attacks. "I hate emotion in anything," says Jackson, "even in religion. If you master the facts, then you can posture yourself in such a way that you can persuade people of your point of view...