Word: insults
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Imus' attack on the Scarlet Knights was was just as vile as his insult directed years ago at distinguished PBS broadcaster Gwen Ifill. When the New York Times assigned Ifill to cover the Clinton presidency, Imus remarked, "Isn't the Times wonderful? It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House." As far as Imus is concerned, a black woman like Ifill should be emptying the President's trash cans, not interviewing him. That casual slander reminded me of an e-mail I once received from a reader who asserted his view of a black woman's proper place...
...editors: Lucy Caldwell makes some good points about derogatory language towards men in her recent column, “Payback’s a Bitch” (Apr. 4)–after all, words that insult any group of people are unattractive. But her analysis of groups like HUWIB (Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business) is less valid because she fails to fully understand the need for their existence. I’m not sure that a women’s group inherently serves to “suggest an underlying negativity against the other sex,” rather...
...turn an economical phrase. When the radio shock jock described the Rutgers women's basketball team, on the April 4 Imus in the Morning, as "nappy-headed hos," he packed so many layers of offense into the statement that it was like a perfect little diamond of insult. There was a racial element, a gender element and even a class element (the joke implied that the Scarlet Knights were thuggish and ghetto compared with the Tennessee Lady Vols...
...been touring with 3EB all around the country and to different colleges. I’ve heard some of their tracks, they sound pretty good.14. FM: Since it has become tradition (this is the second annual Yardfest after all) how do you expect Third Eye Blind to insult Eliot House?A: Oooh. Ask the Harvard Concert Commission.15. FM: Anything else you’d like to add?A: This is going to be a sweet event. I’m really excited and I think everyone should be too. (emphatic finger snap) That was a good upbeat answer...
...game...we were taking smart shots and scoring,” Flood said. “Once they got ahead of us we panicked and started taking shots from fifteen yards against the best goalie in the country, which does not work.” The miscues added insult to injury. The Crimson allowed the final goal of the third in bizarre fashion. After sophomore goalie Joe Pike made a nice save, the ball was turned over and ended up going off a Big Red player’s head and into the back of the net. The turnovers were...