Word: refering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name of G.B.S., when are you going to stop treating vegetarians as if they were a fourth sex? You refer to Brigid Brophy [Feb. 2] as "vegetarian"-yet you never refer to Graham Greene or John Updike as "flesh eaters...
...Though local publications always refer to it as 'the Anglo-American bombing,' there really seems to be very little resentment against either nation. 'No, there's no hatred. We just try to forget about that whole bombing, and when you do that, you forget about who did it,' said a retired engineer. But a local journalist commented: 'We can understand the British more than the Americans because we bombed their cities...
...show runs for half an hour three nights a week, soap-opera style, but its black producers call it "soul drama." The main distinctions are a disdain for euphemism and a bitter black perspective. Characters refer to each other as "black bastards" and "niggers," "sons of bitches" and "mothers." White employers are parodied behind their backs, and there is recurrent talk of revolution. Rails one black domestic: "Wait till the slave maids and housekeepers take to the streets-and them bitches have to do their own dishes...
...committee meetings. On one occasion, the committee was discussing the rental of vacant apartments. In previous months, Harvard had rented to students, hippies, and other transients to case the process of eviction. Tenants requested that rental priority be given to families, and casually used the words "responsible persons" to refer to married couples...
Instead, the faculty voted almost unanimously to have the Administrative Board refer to the committee all disciplinary matters involving obstruction of "essential University functions" and to rely heavily upon its recommendations...