Word: viciousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also appears that the vote on Kissinger was occasioned by an intricate and, at times, vicious gossip game which has long been a part of the Cambridge-Washington circuit. Since last May-when a dozen senior Faculty members visited the White House for an on-the-record conversation with Kissinger in which they denounced the President's decision to invade Cambodia-one of the most publicly effective objections to national policy has been the opposition of Kissinger's most eminent colleagues. But within government and Washington society, one of Kissinger's most potent weapons is a widespread impression that Harvard...
...athletic director, and he is convinced that a tenth game strikes the Presidents as an overemphasis of football inconsistent with the Ivy philosophy. "If they approved a tenth game, the coaches would want more practice beforehand," Watson explained. "Then comes for spring practice. It's sort of a vicious circle, and that's the main reason the Presidents are against it. Boy, they'd love to have the money...
West has so far used his mandate wisely. Vowing to break "the vicious cycle of illiteracy, ignorance and poverty," he pledged to minority groups "no special status other than full-fledged responsibility in a government that is totally color blind." He established a Human Relations Advisory Commission to troubleshoot touchy racial problems, and hired as a top aide a young black social worker, James Clyburn. West also made a startling gesture for a South Carolina Governor by hailing the conviction (by an all-white jury) of three white men who overturned school buses in the strife-torn community of Lamar...
Gene Bell's purported description of my "policy recommendations" concerning Vietnam (CRIMSON, May 14) is totally devoid of truth. Inasmuch as his letter is one more contribution to a vicious campaign of falsehood and slander on this subject. I would like to set the record straight for those of your readers who may be interested in the facts of the matter...
...that one of the students SJP is prosecuting as a disrupter is [a member of the CRIMSON.] To deny free speech not only means to shout down what a man says but also to misrepresent what he says. The CRIMSON's treatment of our organization has been just as vicious a denial of our free speech as was the disruption by radicals in Sanders Theatre...