Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eventually gets some arrests. The two suspects are inner-city Blacks, one a tough hoooker, the other Lucas Ebry, her part time procurer, a piece of human flotsam Corde's zeal for prosecution draws fire from many quarters. The liberals in the suburbs think he may be a racist, the college administration thinks he may be a bit unbalanced. The college radicals, led by Corde's nephew. Mason are sure he is both...
...results of radio stations' demographic polls can be racist, in fact if not in intent. With some crossover exceptions like Michael Jackson and the Commodores, the place to hear black music on American radio now is either soul or oldies stations. And they play even less white music on black radio. Says Jon Landau, the onetime rock critic who now manages Bruce Springsteen: "The cross-fertilization between black music and white music that created rock has greatly diminished." But, argues Atlantic Records Chairman Ahmet Ertegun, "radio doesn't play according to what its prejudices are. Radio plays according...
...Science Center lecture halls were overflowing last night with an audience waiting to hear E. O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science, discuss his original theories of sociobiology. Outside the lecture hall, more than thirty demonstrators were protesting what they called Wilson's "racist" theories...
Bradford C. Mank '83, president of the South Africa Solidarity Committee, said that Wilson is not a racist, but that "the sort of ideas he puts forth lead to a racist mentality...
...Primitive" is a bedeviling word, hard to shake. In the past few decades it has lost most of its racist overtones, but has nonetheless retained an air of condescension. Its most neutral usage, suggested by Newton, is "the art of those peoples who have remained until recent times at an early technological level, who have been oriented toward the use of tools but not machines." The key phrase is "until recent times"-without it, most European culture up to about 1600 could fairly be called primitive. Above all, the word cannot mean crude or inarticulate. Few European medieval ivory carvings...