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...control. He assumed the presidency in a time of great suspicion about the motives of some of Harvard’s professors. “It’s a smelly mess,” Senator Joseph McCarthy said of Harvard in 1953. McCarthy accused Pusey of being a rabid anti-anti-communist leading a University that was a sanctuary for communists. In the face of these vehement attacks, Pusey staunchly defended universities as a place of academic freedom and diversity. Though he opposed allowing communists on the Faculty, arguing that they lacked the necessary independence of thought and judgment...
...dear, it seems that a large rabid T-Rex named “thesis” has eaten my senior-year pie, dripping warm cherry filling all over my new winter white corduroys! “Shoot him! Shoot him!” I cry to no avail. The beast, unsatisfied with having eaten my pie, moves on to its next victim with that “no summa for you” grimace and “overdue library book fine” growl...
...PUBLIC, rabid Bulls fan Some NBA fans don't want Jordan any closer to center court than the MCI Center owner's box, fearing that he may tarnish his legacy as perhaps the greatest athlete of the 20th century. After all, how could he top his previous exit, a steal and subsequent game-winning jump shot in the final minute of Chicago's title-clinching victory in Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals? He probably can't, but, for more sensible fans, seeing Michael Jordan take on this challenge - regardless of the results - only adds to Jordan's legacy...
...high-mindedness of the writer interfering. Gornick uses George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant,” as an example of the importance of narrative voice. In life, Orwell was often an ugly and brutish man, falling prey to his own bitter insecurities, sexism, rabid anti-communism and other flaws. But in “Shooting an Elephant” Orwell adopts the persona of “the involuntary truth speaker, the one who implicates himself not because he wants to but because he has no choice.” He tells the story...
...total of a year and a half in China, I must say that I have never encountered any hostility based on my citizenship, though if one were to rely solely on the information provided by the American media, one might believe that in China, anti-American feelings are rabid...