Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program of education best suited to the needs of a given community. It is this right which was voted on in 1969. I, for one, refuse to believe that 251 members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted for a program of Black studies out of "fear." This vicious rumor, a tenet of conservative faith, must be laid to rest. I believe, instead, that they voted out of an analysis of the importance of Afro-American Studies and an understanding of how best to secure a serious pursuit of that objective. This understanding has been conspicuously absent from...
Unfortunately, the film takes frequent detours into the realms of paranoia and blind hatred. There is a portrait of a white Italian cop (Don Gordon) so foamingly, arbitrarily vicious that it moves beyond believability into hysteria. That is the worst territory possible for a social documentary, albeit a fictional...
...BAKER. A year ago, Baker Louis Calabrese, 45, of Carnegie, Pa., had plenty of competitors in the business of baking cookie-like miniature waffles that are known as pizzeles. Now he thinks that he has a monopoly. All of his rivals, he believes, have been shut down by the vicious cost squeeze that threatens to close Calabrese's Caroline Baking Co. (1973 sales, $200,000). In the past eight months, oil of anise has risen from $3 per lb. to $40. Because the high price of chickenfeed is forcing many farmers to slaughter their hens, eggs are both scarce...
...housing development so that its aesthetic merits can be retained even as a soaring cost factor is brought into line. Soon enough, however, the film settles down to real business. This is not to make any demands on fantasies but to cater to what may currently be the most vicious of them, namely that the problem of crime in the streets is so far out of control that vigilantism is the only way to bring about a final solution...
...when she went to Boston to present some art--her Chinese things to the art gallery there--two the [unintelligible] from the press were pretty vicious. What I mean is they came through the line and one refused to shake. One was not with the press. Refused to shake hands, so forth and so on. Tricia [unintelligible] very personal point, [unintelligible] good brain in that head. She said first she couldn't believe that the event that they do locally [unintelligible] understand. You know she does the Boys' Club, the Art Gallery [unintelligible]. She says the important thing...