Word: slaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Slap Back...
...being promoted at the University of Virginia. The Jefferson Society has directed me to inform you that the society does not have an alternative beverage policy, nor will it institute one. The society was founded in 1825, and has a long tradition of alcohol consumption. Teetotaling is a flagrant slap in the face of tradition...
Before last night's opener against Northeastern, Harvard hockey coach Billy Cleary greeted each of his players with applause and a slap on the back as they nervously trooped off the ice after the pregame warm...
...work that practice into the curriculum in a very half-baked way that satisfies nobody. If Harvard was really committed to the arts, and thus to the humanities as a living tradition, it would establish at least one school of fine art, be it theater or painting or music, slap bang in the middle of the college campus. I expect I will have a long white beard and be drinking ambrosia long before it happens...
...writings of John Burgess and of William Dunning that gave credibility to contemporary theories of racial inferiority proposed by social and biological sciences. Sure they were wrong because they allowed their racist attitude to influence their writing of history, Handlin says. Nonetheless, they deserve no more than a slap on the wrist. After all, these works "were products of serious scholarship, had respectable scientific underpinnings, and earned respect as useful contributions to the solution of current problems." Some people found them useful, anyway--state legislators held up these books as supporting "evidence" for Jim Crow laws. But Handlin excuses...