Word: lese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apparently, however, the University Administration feels differently. From the comments attributed to the understandably anonymous source quoted in yesterday's CRIMSON, I infer that May 2nd stands accused of a crime lying halfway between unHarvard activities and lese majeste. And in one of the most spectacular displays of semantic perversion since 1984, this accusation is justified as a defense of "academic freedom...
...visitors, he had openly criticized the corruption, graft, and suppression of freedom on the highest levels of the Iranian government, even within the Shah's court. Word of his criticism reached Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi himself, leading some to suggest that Ebtehaj's real offense was lese majest...
...this ancient act of lese majesty, Dame Edith took pen in blue-veined hand, rattled her Tibetan bracelets and administered a crushing snub to Villiers David. Wrote she: "I am surprised that after your insolent references to myself, Sir Osbert and Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell [her younger brother] made in verse some years ago, you should have the impudence to invite me to waste my time at your show...