Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important to point out here that the underlying issue throughtout various forms of sexual harassment is one of POWER and not sexuality. These serious incidents of harassment involve abuses of trust and power and are not simply cases where someone momentarily "loses control" and deserves a slap on the wrist and "the dignity to recover." While many cases do not involve such serious abuses of authority, the overriding "theme" present throughout the spectrum of harassment cases is one of power; power used to intimidate, powere used to cocrece, power used to create a hostile environment...
...going up on the post?" a classmate asked, placing a manly slap on my shoulder...
...part this is due to Watt's choice of language-the word cripple in this instance, which has the sound of a flat slap in the face. Yet a few days after Watt's remark, in a bizarre protest demonstration in his defense, a man on crutches supported the usage, citing other contexts where "cripple" is benign. True enough. Former Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz forced himself out of the Ford Administration by telling a cruel and tasteless joke about "coloreds"; yet Dick Gregory could title his autobiography Nigger, and Flip Wilson won love and fortune by creating...
...also those members of the public sufficiently generous to find both humor and value in a sensitive issue. The laughter he elicited-and there was laughter-was the hollow laugh, what Samuel Beckett called the "mirthless" laugh (in the novel Watt, coincidentally), the laugh that itself gives a slap in the face...
...slap in the face that underscored Korea's weakness in the international arena and its continued dependence on the U.S. and, to a lesser extent, Japan. It is difficult for Koreans to believe that the Russians would have attacked a passenger jet from a more powerful nation such as the United States...