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...raining indignation, contempt and vicious stupidity across much of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Discourse in the Age of the Smackdown | 1/25/2001 | See Source »

Over the next 20 minutes, Crimson and Friar players exchanged hit after vicious hit attempting to gain control of the game...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Botterill, W. Hockey Rallies Late to Beat Friars, Huskies | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

...even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our 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 and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/12/2001 | See Source »

...bittersweet, paradoxical business of real, exuberant friendships between black children and white children: innocent intimacies, prelapsarian. Those friendships have the quality of Mark Twain boyhoods - not entirely a matter of Tom Sawyer's rapscallion innocence, but something of boyhood bitterly shadowed, as "Huckleberry Finn" was, by violence, alcoholism, hatred, vicious stupidity and the precocious knowledge of evil. Harper Lee had the atmosphere in "To Kill a Mockingbird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Days of Innocence and Ugliness | 1/11/2001 | See Source »

...Cross-examination is a savage business, and Beck came out with teeth bared. Sneering, sardonic, and sometimes downright vicious, Bush's new star went after Brace on the rubber blends used in South Florida ("I don't know"), the name of the machine that tests rubber softness ("I don't know") how many chads make a pile ("I don't know"), and every other technical fine point with which he could stump Brace for Sauls' amusement. "Your opinion as a political science major is that rubber gets harder?" Beck scoffed, the scarcasm dripping. Brace had come in looking like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Voting-Machine Expert | 12/2/2000 | See Source »

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