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On Meet the Press , William F. Buckley Jr. nominated Pope John Paul II as his POC for "providing the special spiritual animus that made all the difference in the '70s and '80s in overcoming the greatest threat of the century, which was the Soviet Union."
The London Evening Standard said in an editorial that "no reasonable person could feel any personal animus against Emperor Akihito" but that "most Londoners will feel little reason to celebrate," because "the rising sun flag remains, for much of the world, a symbol of terror and shame."
The Washington Post 's Jonathan Yardley defends his attack on Kathryn Harrison's incest memoir against novelist Tobias Wolff's claims that he was motivated by his animus toward memoir as a genre: "The truth, as opposed to Wolff's self-serving fantasy, is that my objections to 'The Kiss' have absolutely nothing to do with its being a memoir per se, or even with its being one of those 'personal writings that have recently found favor with readers.
No doubt some of my animus toward the article is related to these comments about my book.
I'm not talking here about conservative anti-Clinton animus as represented by the American Spectator , the Wall Street Journal editorial page, or the Christopher Ruddy-Ambrose Evans-Pritchard-Richard Mellon Scaife-Jerry Falwell school of conspiracy wackiness.