Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...working out grading formulas. Nabokov's usual procedure is to introduce each novelist with a few choice and highly opinionated general comments, and then turn to the text and tackle it almost word by word. Not afraid to rank his favorites, 1-2-3, he is equally unafraid to slander his least favorites...
...demonstrators and describes how White House Operative Charles Colson surreptitiously sent one group of protesters a supply of oranges under the name of then Democratic Presidential Front Runner Edmund Muskie. The episode is thought by some to have been the beginning of a White House campaign of innuendo and slander against the former Maine Senator...
...Soviet authorities has passed without public protest. These incidents must continue to receive attention because as one letter of defense for an arrested dissident said: "(his) enemies have many ways to sentence (him) to a new term under any false pretext. They can do this secretly or slander him in the newspapers. They can deprive him of defenders or they can intimidate them. We, his friends, have only one way of helping him: publicity. May as many people as possible know of his courageous struggle and his new arrest...
...accused the SYL of being a "security risk" and threw us off the premises as if we were common criminals. This semester the administration has continued this campaign by harassing SYL literature distributors at the Kennedy School and Adams House. Equating Marxists with muggers is the type of vicious slander spewed by McCarthyites during the fifties. This is an attack on open political discussion and the democratic rights of everyone and must be protested...
...ideological imperialism" rampant in faculty lounges and student cafeterias. But that just made many academics all the more wary of Saunier-Seïté and her efforts to reorganize them. Says Sorbonne Classics Professor André Mandouze: "This is an effort to muzzle intellectuals, to isolate and slander them, and to undermine the French university...