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ARTFUL EQUIVOCATIONS are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then your lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx or Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
...basic issues that touch everyone's life. A few observers noticed that in the wake of the Thomas-Hill confrontation, the analysis of the Palm Beach trial was slightly more nuanced, more sophisticated in its discussion of so charged an issue as acquaintance rape. The politics may have been vicious, but the Senate passed and the President signed a civil rights bill that will finally allow victims to collect punitive damages in harassment cases. Employers are making their rules more explicit, their reporting procedures more reliable. If men and women are temporarily more cautious and self-conscious about what they...
...blatant anti-semites. (According to the Anti-Defamation League, CODOH was co-founded by Bradley R. Smith, the writer of the ad, and by a known member of an American Neo-Nazi Party.) We're not talking about a controversial argument based on questionable facts. We're talking about vicious propaganda based on utter bullshit that has been discredited time and time again by legitimate scholars of diverse ideological persuasions...
...desire to help people but by a desire to be cruel. The editorial is not an analysis of what he thinks is wrong with Gomes's talk; it is an opportunity for Chris to use his arrogant sarcasm and pretentious vocabulary ("unregenerately otiose"?) to be as vicious as he possibly...
When the Peninsula came out, I kept my mouth shut, because, even though I was hurt, I believed that its writers really wanted to do good. Now that they seem to have descended into vicious personal attacks, though, I feel that I'm within the bounds of acceptable behavior in asking a favor of them...