Word: slurs
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...express my regret that "journalistic enterprise" in this instance did not extend to searching out the facts which might have avoided what I would like to believe was a thoughtless slur on my scholarly credentials. Marie Fainsod, Professor of Government...
...CRIMSON now feels it was an error to print the excerpts, and apologizes to Professor Fainsod for what could have been Interpreted as a slur...
Eisenhower certainly was annoyed with Barry - mostly because of that famed Goldwater crack that "one Eisenhower in a decade is enough." But Goldwater has recently gone to great lengths to try to explain to Ike that the remark was quoted out of context, that he had meant no slur at all. Eisenhower seemed mollified...
...talks about his work he makes it desperately clear that he is working beyond the reach of his vocab-ary. People may smile when he sits town to play, but the trouble with his misic is less the fault of the composer than the carpenter: imperfections in his instruments slur the microtonic scheming-and all his years spent with little ore than Chinese proverbs to comfort him are lost and drowned in a chorus of whangs...
...last review he would like to seize a final opportunity not only to deny this most ill-informed of calumnies but to express as vigorously as possible his admiration for all of Harvard's drama. If its best is excellent judged by the highest standards, it is certainly no slur to say that its worst is bad by those same standards. Always it is luminous for its energy and its intelligence. And I have always, last night especially, enjoyed myself...