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...race terrorism. The most hideous recent example of race-terror was the cold-blooded, state-organized murder of 11 members of the MOVE commune in Philadelphia by Reagan and his Black democratic front-man mayor Wilson Goode. However, despicable Joe Menn can joke in his piece about Klan-style "sordid and unhealthy aspects of cross-burning and rock throwing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SYL Responds | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

...happen to be quite familiar with the sordid, little history of Joseph Menn and the somewhat bigger more sordid story of the ISO. So at the risk of making you nauseous, gentle reader, we wish to relate to some of the choicest parts of this tale in the interests of public sanitation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SYL Responds | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

...been telling you, I fear that my fervent belief in the goals of the Beech Society is no longer matched by enthusiasm for its brutal and unsubtle methodology....I long to compete on the fields of mental battle, far away from the sordid and unhealthy aspects of cross-burning and rock-throwing....What was your PSAT score...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Platonic Dialogue? | 11/19/1985 | See Source »

...young man invested with Montross's spirit, tells Diana that her grandfather has come back to reveal the sordid truth about her parents' past. Diana, in her attempt to unravel this cryptic mesage, somewhat predictably falls in love with Day. Her mission, then, becomes not only to pacify her grandfather's restless spirit, but to liberate Day from this psychic bond which prevents him from forming any more conventional ones with Diana...

Author: By Ann Tobias, | Title: A Ghoulish Love Story | 11/15/1985 | See Source »

...SORDID SAGA of the CUE Guide turned another page last month, but a happy ending may be at hand. A proposal that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences cede control of the Guide to the Undergraduate Council offers a long-sought answer to criticisms that have dogged the book almost since its inception...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: CUE Quandry | 11/5/1985 | See Source »

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