Word: slanderous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Bradley W. Kertzberg, one of the demonstration's five organizers, said recent editorials about Zionism and Israel's conduct in the Middle East were full of "lies and half-truths about Zionist history. They went beyond the political realm and started to slander the Jewish people...
...pain of scurrilous intrusion into the regions of the sacred is not felt by the so-called fundamentalists only, but is the common experience of the whole, besieged ((Muslim)) minority. While there can be rational opposition to their faith, there should be no outraging of it by obscenity and slander...
...tactics are the last refuge of those unable to make a compelling legal argument that will distinguish between the Fly Club and things as harmless as Wellesley College, both institutions that deny their benefits to members of one sex. When reason and sobriety are beyond one's capabilities, only slander remains as an effective political weapon. SWAT, ZIP and their cohorts hope that repetition and volume alone will be enough to make their outrageous charges into facts. We, at least, feel that they should not be able to get away with it. Christopher A. Ford '89 Ronald J. Granieri...
...Massachusetts, would have a different resonance when replayed in the political culture of the country as a whole. The second purpose of the pledge attack was to restate an old Republican Party theme: the G.O.P.'s patriotism is somehow a sturdier affair than the Democrats'. It may be a slander, but it's something Republicans have been saying or implying since...
...Leader Jerry Falwell called for a boycott against MCA, Universal's parent company; all MCA products, which include Grosset & Dunlap publishers, Spencer Gifts and Motown Records; and any theater that shows the film. Said Falwell: "Neither the label 'fiction' nor the First Amendment gives Universal the right to libel, slander and ridicule the most central figure in world history...