Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allergy to elementary distinctions is not confined to child educators and their admirers. It also turns up on the political front, even among presidential candidates. For example, when Louis Farrakhan publicly threatened the life of the Washington Post reporter who had disclosed Jesse Jackson's "Hymie" slur, Jackson characterized the episode as a "conflict" between "two very able professionals caught in a cycle that could be damaging to their careers...
...Republican Trent Lott immediately demanded that the Speaker's words be "taken down"-a signal that O'Neill should be called to order for violating the House's rule against personal attacks. Parliamentarian William Brown consulted a dictionary to see if the word lowest was a slur. Minutes ticked by in painful silence until a chagrined Moakley, as gently as possible, informed the Speaker that he had indeed violated the chamber's code. "I was expressing my views very mildly," protested a bristling O'Neill, "because I think much worse than what I actually said...
Jackson's "Hymie" slur and his failure to repudiate Farrakhan caused outrage in several respected quarters. The New Republic, a leading liberal magazine with a strong pro-Israel slant, editorialized that Jackson's "potential for blighting the future of interracial politics and for wounding the Democratic Party now seems great indeed." Carl T. Rowan, the most widely circulated black columnist, warned that Jackson might be stirring a white backlash that would help re-elect Reagan, "in which case Jackson is going to have to face the conscience-searing question: Why, in his stubborn embrace of a few black...
...WEEKS Jackson, the self-proclaimed "moral conscience" of the Democratic Party, engaged in double talk and even lied about having made a racial slur against Jews. In the process, Jackson turned what should have been an irrelevant incident into a full scale rhetorical war between America's Blacks and Jews...
...Baker Hall does his best with the material and puts in a good performance as Nixon. With his deep, grumbly voice, he sounds like Nixon; with his long, flabby nose, brushed-back strands of greasy hair, baggy eyes and big ears, he looks like Nixon. Despite a tendency to slur his words, Hall delivers his lines as if he is truly absorbed by his train of thought, as if he has convinced himself that what he is saying is actually the truth. Unaware of his character's absurdity, Hall's Nixon compulsively unburdens himself of his guilty pleas and wild...