Word: odiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presumed that reasonable individuals may differ. Yet in the absence of morally and intellectually active role models, Harvard students' confused responses are in many cases quite understandable. Thus today in the eleventh hour of the "other America" these students' major contribution beyond filling unspecified quotas is their odious indifference to their poor and to important questions of culture. These failings are symptomatic of much deeper moral and cultural crisis. It is a crisis that no amount of affirmative action can correct since it involves deep questions that they alone will have to address...
This thriller carries heavy baggage: encomiums from Nobel Laureates Saul Bellow and Czeslaw Milosz. But Richard Lourie is equal to the burden. First Loyalty has a compelling cast and a labyrinthine plot that twists from Siberia to the Bronx. Perhaps the most odious individual is the exiled dissident poet Evgeny Shar. To him crime is just "politics without the excuses." His nemesis, Writer David Aronow, scrapes by translating "the endless memoirs of people from countries where nothing ever worked out well." KGB Colonel Anton Vinias, responsible for instigating Western soccer riots, believes reality is simply "documentary footage, crying...
...discussions between the government and black leaders on the country's future. In one of the strongest comments yet made on the current situation by a Reagan Administration official, State Department Spokesman Charles Redman declared: "Banning individuals and organizations from political activity is one of the most odious practices of the South African government. It offends the democratic values of free speech and assembly, and it accentuates the anger and frustration felt by all opponents of apartheid. The South African government's contention that it upholds Western values is belied by such actions. A society can never effectively come...
They have sugar coated it, spoken of a new era, apologized for it, offered incentives anything to make the student body believes in a body that is as absurd as it is odious...
Even though much of the exhaustive television reporting from Viet Nam was quite good, Kissinger's comments reflected an understandable uneasiness among many viewers about the total picture presented. Correspondents for all three networks did point out the country's odious human rights record, but, of course, there were no pictures to accompany the commentary. Since television relies on images to get its message across, the words about Viet Nam's abuses may have faded from viewers' minds, while the footage of happy Vietnamese lingered...