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This nation's lust for oil [Feb. 26] is a national disgrace. In order to get our daily "fix" we are willing to coddle tyrants, insult friends and grovel before reactionary regimes. Once it was feared that mankind would be "crucified upon a cross of gold"; now it appears that it will be crushed by a barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 19, 1979 | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...insult to injury to more insult, the extracurricular activities that the Third World people engage in slip your narrow-minded Western perspective as being the most 'barbaric' things that a person would do in Western civilization. You then go on to make a farce out of the hundreds of years of blatant discrimination suffered by the people of the Third World by placing us on the same level as, and thus equating us with freaks and outcasts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon Sleaziness | 3/16/1979 | See Source »

Student reaction to the day's events was mixed. "The administration is not showing any real communication," Howard Kelly, a member of the Afro-American Association, said yesterday. "Some of us felt upset" when Kemeny left immediately after his speech, he said, adding it was "almost like an insult...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Minorities Outline Sexism and Racism Charges | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

...each other as humans, instead of as representatives of their sexes. But I feel RUS is trying to thwart this aim. By encouraging the separation of the sexes, it only perpetuates misunderstanding between the sexes and detracts from the process of true human liberation for everyone. And they insult me by making me an enemy in their implied "war of the sexes." Doug Kruse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Sexist RUS | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

...paper's editorial, declaring that Playboy "has played a major role in America's degradation of women," but beyond that the arguments grew tortuous: on whether the Crimson would be contributing to such degradation by running Chan's ad, whether refusing the ad was a paternalistic insult to Radcliffe women's ability to choose intelligently and whether the precepts of free speech vs. censorship apply differently to editorial content and paid advertisement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: All the Nudes Fit to Print | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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