Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killing of innocent babies immoral only in the eyes of Roman Catholics? When vetoing the New York abortion law repeal, Governor Rockefeller remarked: "I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society." His gratuitous statement is a slur not only on Roman Catholics but also on all people of compassion-Protestants, Jews, and those of no particular faith -who saw the present New York State abortion law for what it really is: legalized murder...
...Bowdler" intelligent enough to attend a performance of Hamlet should realize that "Polack" is simply the Polish word for "Pole" and not the ethnic slur the Polack joke craze has made...
...than the protests began. The Italian-American Civil Rights League, a group headed by Joseph Colombo, the reputed don of one of New York City's five Mafia families, held a rally in Madison Square Garden, raising a $600,000 war chest to stop the production as a slur on Italian-Americans. Close to 100 letters of protest came in from Senators, Congressmen and New York State legislators. The Manhattan offices of Paramount's parent company, Gulf & Western, twice had to be evacuated because of bomb threats. In Los Angeles, police told the movie's producer...
Harold E. Clancy, president of the Boston Herald Traveler Corp., replied by calling David's statement a "slur on the judicial processes of Massachusetts...
...strengths was an almost verbatim paraphrase of the listing given me by his campaign manager. Grillo cleverly omits one-third of the listing: the word "liberal," which is ordinarily taken to refer to a candidate's political beliefs. 2) My listing of DiCara's appearance was not a slur, but merely an observation that he did not lit the image of the Harvard grandee. I submit that this image does exist, and that it would be a minus factor if DiCara conformed to it. Of my own height, waist-line, nose or hairline, of course, Grillo knows nothing. Lastly...