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Even though James gave primacy to pure, raw values, he did not disparage consistency as an ideal. On occasion critics have accused him of advocating belief in whatever seems most pleasant at a given moment. James considered this accusation an "impudent slander" involving a fundamental misunderstanding of pragmatism. He visualized himself, in fact, as pent in "between the whole body of funded truths squeezed from the past and the coercions of the world of sense about...
Arguing for a closed meeting, Marc A. Slotnick '64 charged that "in the last HCUA election there was distortion and slander which made the Council look very bad." He contended further that a closed meeting would enable Council members to be less constrained in expressing their opinions about the candidates...
Speaking before the International Relations Council, Cvijete Job asserted that Albania and the Chinese have been "very bestial to us. Since 1953 China has gone out of her way to attack us." There has been a "constant campaign of slander" conducted by the Chinese, he said, and relations with them are "most tenuous...
Leadbelly died in 1949 and can't sue you for slander, but at least his friends can stand up for him. His "violent youth" was always overemphasized by sensation-mongers and presstitutes, and if he got in trouble, it was more the fault of the wide-open honky-tonks where he made his living. We who knew him the last 15 years of his life in New York can attest that he was the most considerate and generous human being, wonderful when singing for kids, and a helluva sight more honorable than the bored sophomores who loused up what...
Nixon's performance at his last press conference was in addition something of an apology; for by blaming everybody, he could only be blaming himself. But his sin was of presumption, not slander. Hiss's apparently generous statement on television Sunday night was really a sad assent to this judgment. He and Nixon's other victims fell to a desperate incompetent; for Nixon never understood politics until it had found...