Word: slanderers
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...call chapter 27 of my book racist is slander,"Edward O. Wilson '53, professor of Zoology, said last night defending his recent book "Sociobiology: The New Synthesis...
...fellow travelers by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late '40s and early '50s. The witnesses are exclusively from the Hollywood and Broadway communities and include, among others, such figures as Larry Parks, Jose Ferrer, Abe Burrows, Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, Lillian Hellman, Lionel Slander, Arthur Miller and Paul Robeson. (Bentley seems no less inclined than HUAC to sprinkle Stardust in order to germinate publicity...
During the conversation, Hughes not so tactfully referred to his former top aide, Robert A. Maheu, as "a no-good son of a bitch who stole me blind." The phone call helped send Irving to prison-and Maheu to court with a $17 million suit against Hughes for slander. After nearly three years of legal wrangling, a six-person jury in Los Angeles awarded Maheu $2.8 million in damages, to be paid by the Hughes-owned Summa Corporation. "Hughes used to tell me that "there isn't a man I can't buy or destroy,' " recalled Maheu...
...speak. In the early stages of the department's existence, Professor Kilson gained national notoriety as an aggressive critic of Afro-American studies, Black students and so-called lower-class Blacks. He has remarked that the courses in the department were so many examples of "basketweaving." For this slander and others too numerous to mention, his appointment to the board of the DuBois Institute would be objectionable even if he refrained from contributing. His appointment is an affront to the honor of DuBois's name, an insult to the Black community, in general, and a slap in the face...
...sincerity calls into question the sincerity of Bok's public statement that a "natural relationship would evolve between the department and the institute," whatever the sense we might ascribe to that vacuous phrase. Professor Patterson has said that the department is a "concentration camp." This is an outright slander which Professor Patterson has never seen fit to correct publicly. His appointment raises a speculative point of considerable interest: If the department is a concentration camp, how should the natural relationship between the department and the institute evolve...