Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...player, but merits every bit of effort required. Bernard Shaw once wrote, in a letter to the actress Ellen Terry, "Leontes is a magnificent part, worth fifty Othellos (Shakespear knew nothing about jealousy when he wrote Othello), as modern as Ibsen, and full of wonderful music." The slur on Othello was poppycock, but Shaw was otherwise right on the mark...
...been outraged to read. As an example, we cite the case of one Morris K. Udall, who, on the day before the Massachusetts primary, was accused of having voted for the censure of Rep. Michael J. Harrington. A courageous bottom-of-the-last-page correction of this well-meant slur noted that Udall would have had difficulty participating in a House censure vote that never took place. Finally, the integrity of the Crimson reporter is beyond reproach: this is evidenced by the fact that even when stories are shown to be based upon a framework of total fabrication and misinformation...
...letter which Steiner made public yesterday states that because there were no witnesses to the alleged slur by Sweeney "It is difficult to be certain what happened...
According to the letter, Holcombe told Lee that he had informed Norwood of the "exact racial slur" immediately after Sweeney used...
Norwood, the letter continues, told Lee in November that Holcombe had merely informed him that Sweeney just "insulted me" and had not actually named the slur. Finally, according to the letter, Holcombe told Alan Balsam, chief shop steward of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees' Union, of the incident the day after it happened. Balsam, in turn, apparently informed union leaders of the incident the same day, but failed to mention any 'racial slur' until two days later...