Word: hominem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rally over the years had always been colored by political rhetoric, talk of "empowerment" and diatribes against patriarchy. The march that followed this year's rally included chants of "Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho! the Peninsula has got to go!" and, more ad hominem, "Hey, Hey! HO, Ho! Kelly Bowdren's got to go!" I fail to see how these dismal dithryambs serve the cause of women's safety...
Perhaps this is a good thing, because Cucci's set of rules ignores several basic facts. First, ad hominem attacks have been, and always will be, a part of human discourse. Cucci's idealistic vision of a community of scholars who make amazing arguments based on reason and never let personality come between them is nothing more than an impossible dream. We could turn Cucci's argument into a very good Beatles song, however; "Imagine all the students/Talking about issues in peace...
...points made by Nietzsche and Paglia are well-taken. Satire, wit and ad hominem attacks have been and always will be essential to healthy, honest and vital discourse. Just because the people who don't excel in these areas want us to have pity on them doesn't mean we must give up the treasured rhetorical devices which make campus debate not only intelligent, but also entertaining--and therefore worth reading...
...addition, 124 of 223 faculty members signed a statement repudiating a book by the professor, Anthony Martin, "for its ad hominem attacks upon members of the Wellesley College community, for its racial and ethnic stereotyping, and for its anti-Semitism...
...could have had their own dark, resentful suspicions confirmed. It was a symposium on infotainment featuring a quorum of the national media elite -- Sam Donaldson, Bernard Kalb, Phil Donahue. When Donaldson, who says he often listens to Limbaugh, slammed him for calling certain feminists "feminazis" and for "his ad hominem attacks and ghoulish humor," the audience of 2,000 erupted in approving hoots and applause. Mary Matalin, who managed George Bush's campaign last year, was also on the panel, and she asked how many in the audience had ever watched or listened to Limbaugh. "Silence," Matalin says. "Absolute silence...