Word: rabidity
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William Tate Dougherty's article "Fighting Apathy" in the spring registration issue of The Crimson shows this idea in its most rabid form. Dougherty talks about how every oppressed group on campus should immediately rally to the defense of any other oppressed group that comes under attack...
...talked about it in the campaign," he recalls in a conversation in his unpretentious ninth-floor office on Houston's Memorial Drive. "Single biggest thing, the decline of the family. We were written off as rabid right-wingers" for saying so, Bush remembers. "Clinton goes and gives a speech in the South, a good speech, and people say, 'Ain't it wonderful he's putting focus on the family.' And I'm glad he is. But you know, as I look at society, we're far worse off in that regard...
Admittedly, not even the most rabid sociobiologists contend that babies pop out of the womb with a thirst for bank robbing. Rather, they say, a constellation of influences leads to a life of crime, among them poverty, maleness and a trait known as "impulsivity," presumably caused by bad brain chemistry, caused in turn by bad genes. What, you may ask, is impulsivity? The standard answer tends to involve people who can't control their emotions or who get into bar fights. A study conducted in Finland found that men so characterized tend to be deficient in the brain hormone serotonin...
David B. Lat's insipid ranting about the Association for the Absence of Rabid Moralism ("The Absence of Rational Minds," Feb 10, 1994) is off-base and a blatant example of the Harvard right-wing's lack of a sense of humor...
...question, "Should a group whose idea of 'art' is a really bad play script about gay rights receive money from the Office for the Arts?" is strange. I assume he is referring to AFARM's piece in HQ, "Sugar Daddy Memoirs From the Association for the Absence of Rabid Moralism " (HQ, Dec., 1993). While it is sophisticated and difficult, I would hardly say it is "really bad." But it is meaningless whether or not I think it's good and Lat thinks it's bad. If artwork affects someone, and the play script obviously has, then it is an effective...