Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David Ogilvy did not find advertising columnists so odious in his recent book, Confessions of an Advertising Man, as he did in your article-"They are a perfect total pain in the bum . . ." [April...
Perhaps the most odious facet of this strategy involves the liberal's relationship with the Negro: the liberal must again urge patience. Demonstrations in the South should focus on specific grievances that the Northern moderate can comprehend easily. If violence occurs, blame must lie clearly with the white Southerner. In the North, violence could prove fatal to the President's chances; the white is incapable of understanding why irrational treatment of the Negro should elicit an irrational response. In general, direct action in the North should be discouraged this summer...
...first sign of what modern minds have wrought comes in the opening moments. In a short prologue, Machiavelli (played by Schmidt) introduces Gitter as Barabas, the wily Jew. An appearance by the "odious" Italian was usually enough to terrify Elizabethans for the evening. But let Schmidt merely change one word in the script, let him say "I come not to read a lecture here in Cambridge," and Presto! The audence laughs and the fun begins...
...Nationalist Party government the presence of non-whites at the "open" universities was odious. For years the government, which heavily subsidizes all colleges, tried to force complete segregation. It was successfully fought off by alumni, faculty, and students, who asserted that the government sought to violate the autonomy of the universities. But in 1959, despite a march through downtown Johannesburg by 2,500 students and faculty clad in academic robes, the government passed the "Extention of University of Education Act." The law forbade almost all admissions of non-whites to "white" universities. Students coming into the universities now are deprived...
...odious little girl," rasped Italy's Communist daily L'Unità. "She thinks she is the navel of the world. She is a Fascist." Who drew the Red scowls? Why, none other than Lucy, 6, devastating heroine of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip. With the appearance of a Peanuts collection in Italy, L'Unità decided to pseudoanalyze her. "She gossips continuously about others, blackmails them, hollers about other people's complexes, but remains turned in on herself. One hates her." To all this, there was only one thing to say, and Cartoonist Schulz...