Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...break the conscription law, does this not give the Klan the right to disobey the Civil Rights Act? There is a confusion here between the tolerance of all speech, and the tolerance of all actions. I would argue that all promulgation of ideas by speech or press whether odious to us or not, should be tolerated without distinction; that we, as citizens, should defend someone's right to speak stupidly (even while we expose that studidity), that whatever "harm" may come from bad ideas it is not irreparable. But as for actions, their result may be irreparable...
...Poets: uselessly solemn, infatuated, or odious, monsters, specialists, tormentors, and martyrs of the adjective whose dilettantism, lucidity and intellectual sensibility I had vastly overestimated...
Cutler admits that there are still minor problems to be ironed out, but he believes the new setup will relieve the compulsory aspect of P.T. that freshmen find odious. In fact, success of the coupons rests heavily on an honor system, which seems to be the only obstacle to ballot-stuffing on behalf of one's friends...
...after next week. In More Stately Mansions, Bergman will play an odious matriarch battling her daughter-in-law for her son. Equally important is the chance to perform a "good play" by "America's greatest playwright, one whose work the people ought to be seeing." Despite her personal tranquillity, Bergman is worried about "a world where there can be no peace, where people are continuously hurting each other...
Fear of Resentment. "As odious as his name may be to millions of Africans," said the East African Standard in Nairobi, "it is no light matter to send a man to certain death with a stroke of the pen." Calling for a "fair trial" for Tshombe, the Tanzania Standard warned the Congo that its actions could "further tarnish Africa's image. It could provide a precedent to hang like a sword of Damocles over other African leaders who openly support what, in effect, amounts to a blood lust." The U.S. has interceded with Congo President Joseph Mobutu to spare...