Word: label
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individual evil, original sin, even of the devil and demons-and did so in the wake of what happened in the jungles of Guyana. But these concepts have not exactly been popular among more liberal theologians. Brown University's John Giles Milhaven, for example, refuses to attach the label "evil" even to Jonestown. "I think what really happens with people like Hitler and Jones," says he, "is simple psychological sickness. The only response [to Guyana], it seems to me, is pity for everybody involved, not moral horror. Psychological illnesses that keep people from being good, sociological causes that compel...
Robert Brustein has earned the label "controversial" at Yale, at Harvard, in the American theater--a brilliant scholar who is also a provocative artist, an incisive critic who also runs a professional theater, a moralist, philosopher, and a culture-watcher. If and when he comes to the Loeb in 1980, he will focus the attention of the country on theater at Harvard--and rightly so: it's in his nature to shake things...
Others have tagged him as "the spokesman for elitism in American theater." Brustein doesn't like his "elitist" label, and calls it "a political football and a red herring." The word "elite," he says, is misunderstood in America. People think that "no one is better than anyone else. Well, that's the wrong road to take--a person can have a special talent or gift, and we have to identify that gift and encourage it. I'm interested in quality, excellence, standards." He says he has preserved his ideal over the last 13 years, but has learned how to soften...
...jewelry has become Avon's fastest-growing line, from nothing in 1970 to $260 million last year. Avon does not intend to abuse the Tiffany name in flogging its own cheaper wares. Says John Riedy, an analyst at Drexel, Burnham, Lambert: "That would be like putting a Rolls Royce label on a Pinto." Instead, the company plans next year to test-market a whole new line: door-to-door vitamins...
...Problem is that the label "offensive" is too easily applied. There is an enormous number of subjects--whether social theories, political views or religious beliefs, anything from Darwinism to disco--that could be branded "offensive" at any given time. For The Crimson to set itself up as an arbiter of taste, to impose our own standards of offensiveness on readers who are at least as intelligent and capable of choosing as we, is more than presumptuous. It also carries with it the seeds of capriciousness, the danger of unreasonably restraining the open discussion that it is our role to promote...