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...racial slur was painted on the steps of Smith College a week after the World Series. Rumors floated that a white student in a Ku Klux Klan outfit at a Halloween party won a prize for the costume. Black women complained of stepped up harassment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Series Touches Off Racial Clashes | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

...Smith talks were prompted by a spray-painted slur on the steps of Lilly Hall on October 30. The building houses offices for minority student groups and the slur was apparently written in response to letters in the student newspaper describing campus bigotry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Series Touches Off Racial Clashes | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

Still, his local following is intensely loyal, sponsoring raffles and fashion shows to benefit WVCA and sending in a steady trickle of contributions, which are not tax deductible. One listener shrugs off the work- sex slur, saying "Some people do both." Another says Geller has given so much to Gloucester he's entitled to knock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Giving Music | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

After Epps's comments were made public, Henry and the student council's vice president wrote a letter decrying Epps's statement as a "ridiculous slur against Harvard graduate students." The comments, the letter continued, suggested that graduate students are "retarded" and implied that they are "second class citizens" in the University...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Epps's Words Prompt Apology | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

Without the music to add complexitv and depth, an aural crutch suggesting richer emotion is gone. With the words on paper, without Dylan's raspy slur to disguise them, they can sometimes seem quite forced...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: A Bob Dylan Odyssey | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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