Word: racists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Committee chairman Joseph R. Biden (D-Del.), who previously stated his opposition to Bork, wrapped up Saturday's 34-hour session with praise for the nominee as "an honorable man." Biden said, "I find you neither a racist nor insensitive...
...Committee, the more persuasive and reasoned his philosophy of judicial restraint will sound." Armed with an agile mind and a caustic wit, Bork is expected to be a formidable opponent for his critics on the committee. "Any Senator who decides to just jump in and portray Bork as some racist, some evil Neanderthal, is going to be in deep trouble," says Republican Committee Member Alan Simpson of Wyoming. Many hopeful conservatives, remembering the turnabout in public opinion during the Iran-contra hearings, envision Bork as "Ollie North without the medals...
...with orders to ask all grown black men, with the exception of the obese, to agree to be fingerprinted. "We have an obligation to try every option within our means," proclaimed Kelly, 33, a Homestead native who has been on the force for 13 years. He sternly denied any racist sentiment and insisted -- convincingly, since at 6 ft. 5 in. and 280 lbs. he looks like a fellow who could go bear hunting with a switch -- he would have asked for fingerprints of whites if he had thought the attacker was white...
...orgy of drunkenness, sexual license and suicide. By forsaking emotionally neutral biblical robes for specific ghetto mufti (only Moses, portrayed by Bass-Baritone Theo Adam, is outfitted in Old Testament garb), Ponnelle risked having the quarrelsome Jews appear like characters in one of Julius Streicher's Nazi racist fantasies, evoking the stereotype of avariciousness and the calumny of blood libel. Even the splendid performances of Adam, British Tenor Philip Langridge as a smooth Aron, and the brilliant chorus of the Vienna State Opera could not erase the disturbing, if unintentional, impression...
More immediate, some scholars feel the presentation of data and the underlying philosophy are, in fact, racist. Michael Teitelbaum, who has taught demography at Princeton and Oxford, points out that "since the onset of mortality declines two centuries ago, there have been no shortages of humans, only perceived shortages of particular kinds of humans." And Peter Morrison, population research director for the Rand Corp., asserts that probirth programs for the largely white Western middle class "label a group as being inferior or superior. It's what prejudice is all about...