Word: vicious
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...These days we give center stage to anyone who will kick us in the teeth, nationally speaking. If this is an age of awakened soul-searching, it is also an age of masochism. Hence vicious opportunists and sadists like Mailer become the golden boys...
...from this dim hallway that the Shaded Veiled Lady, played by Meredith Kays, always enters. Throughout the play, in a wonderfully vicious voice, she preserves a rich, purring accent that doubles the sad, sultry fascination she exudes...
...through impossibly boring papers; Henry Kissinger; page-proofing the CRIMSON and walking back to Eliot House at sunrise; friends booted out of school for fighting the war in the only way they knew how; tenured professors making jokes about other tenured professors who are homosexual; subtle but vicious racism between blacks and whites: the great view from between Lamont and Houghton of lovely Holyoke Center, the weird red Mass Ave buildings from which Harvard ejects tenants, and Wigglesworth; Nini's Corner; and sherry. We didn't drink sherry in Indiana, and I found out at my proctor's one night...
...only way to break out of this vicious circle-and it is vicious when you realize that television is the most frequently used means of communication in this country-is through a real structural change in the television and this is something that the videocassette/cartridge industry is not about to provide. Cable television can, however, provide that needed change...
...declared that in "such a war man stands outside the blessing of God ... in fact, under his curse." Philip did not improve his reputation in Newburgh when, in an address before a community group, he linked racism and the Viet Nam War. "Is it possible for us to be vicious, brutal, immoral and violent at home and be fair, judicious, beneficent and idealistic abroad?" he asked. Two weeks later he was banished to Baltimore...