Word: vile
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AALARM takes itself much more seriously, Robert K.A. Wasinger '94, an outspoken member of AALARM, has been known to give quotes like his comment on Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield's ramarks about the shamelessness of homosexuality ("Coalition Reacts to Mansfield," Oct. 22, 1993): "Homosexuality is a vile and detestable lifestyle and I think that it is completely disgusting that two people could do that freely to each other...
Like so many other who condemn homosexuality as "shameful" or "vile," lat focuses on sex to the exclusion of other, oftern more important, aspects of homosexual relation ships or heterosexual ones,. for that matter--love, mutual attraction, support and self-sacrifice, to name just...
Under heavy pressure from mainstream black politicians, Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, stripped aide Khalid Abdul Muhammad of his title and rank for making a speech last November that many critics labeled racist and anti-Semitic and that Farrakhan labeled "vile in manner, repugnant, malicious, mean-spirited." But Farrakhan also said he stood by "the truths" in the speech...
...Access to these things are voluntary," said one member. But he described such messages as "sheerly vile...
...expect to get it. Power Rangers is choppy, video-game-paced fare that has the feel of a cheap Japanese monster movie, circa 1956. The premise: five teenagers (three boys and two girls) are transmogrified mid-episode into spandex-clad superheroes who battle the vile forces of Rita Repulsa, an intergalactic witch. Through a mix of kung-fu acrobatics, pummeling and pouncing, the Rangers manage to defeat whatever band of clunky, plastic robot- cretins Rita enjoins to cause trouble...