Word: slurs
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...senior tutor and masters of Mather House issued a letter this week condemning a racial slur directed at a Black resident tutor last Saturday...
...slur] insults the individual, divides the community, and mocks the knowledge and achievement that are our common enterprise. It is simply unacceptable," the letter said...
...House staff agreed with the sentiment of an angry respondent who wrote beside the racial slur, "This is disgusting...
Many Mather residents were surprised to hear about the slur...
JAMES LEE BURKE, WHO WRITES swampy, phosphorescent thrillers about New Orleans (A Stained White Radiance, for example), suffers from a terrible and mostly undeserved reputation for fine writing. Perhaps to confront this slur head-on, he throws in some undeniably lavender flourishes on page 5 of his new best seller, Dixie City Jam (Hyperion; 367 pages; $22.95). "The wind was hot and sere," he reports. And "the sun looked like a white flame trapped inside the dead water." And "an occasional fork of lightning, like silver threads trembling inside the clouds." It's a weather bulletin delivered by choiring angels...