Word: subverter
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HARVARD'S RIGHT WING has opened a new front in the effort to subvert attention from the divestment issue. In the most recent issue of the think-tank-subsidized Harvard Salient, editor Thomas Firestone '86 calls on the University's governing Corporation to divest from USSR-related firms, and in so doing to cease "bankrolling the Kremlin." But what the Salient, the Republican Club, and individual conservatives are really trying to do is confuse the issue with meaningless comparisons which create a false reductio ad absurdam...
...Corporation's planned revisions in its shareholder guidelines represent another first: for the first time, Harvard's objective will be to undermine the South African police state--to subvert apartheid as a legal, governmental institution--and not merely to ameliorate the material conditions of Black South Africans in the workplace...
...Administration claimed that an emergency had indeed arisen from Nicaragua's "aggressive activities in Central America." It laid out a litany of accusations to back up the contention. Among them: "Nicaragua's continuing efforts to subvert its neighbors, its rapid and destabilizing military buildup, its close military and security ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union and its imposition of Communist totalitarian internal rule." The embargo would end, said Speakes, when the Sandinistas took "concrete steps" to moderate their behavior...
...realize it or not, are astride the twilight zone of sentiment, sentimentality, and naked-nipple camp. With a synthesizer beat that commands the dance floor, tender melodies that call for industrial-sized Dramamine, and pretty-boy vocals that would do credit to the Krokodiloes. Depeche Mode somehow manages to subvert the teen-age romantic schlock slot they ought to fit so well...
...moral outrage in middle age measures the degree of early infatuation and ultimate disappointment. With the passion of a lover betrayed, Schickel protests that celebrities in the arts "are used to simplify complex matters of the mind and spirit." We look at the face and ignore the work. Celebrities "subvert rationalism in politics." We neglect the issues and vote for the image most skillfully packaged on TV. In every department of life, celebrities are a "corruption," Schickel's label for the shallowness and glitz of late 20th century civilization. With considerable reason, he blames celebrities and the cameras without which...