Word: affront
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BEAUTIFUL LOSERS, by Leonard Cohen (Viking; 243 pages; $5.75), is jacket-blurbed by its proud publishers as "a tasteless affront." They also call it "a religious epic of incomparable beauty," but they were right the first time. At its best, Losers is a sluggish, stream-of-concupiscence exposition of what Sartre called nausea. The flipster fictioneers have treated this theme so often that the method has become standardized: spit in their shoe, serve it to you. Novelist Cohen is all spit and no polish. His anti-hero is a Canadian writer who has had a homosexual affair with a Member...
...Your ugly cover is a blasphemous outrage and, appearing as it does during Passover and Easter week, an affront to every believing Jew and Christian...
...Richard Bereza's comment that people "who aren't quite as capable are better able to endure the boredom of military life" is an ignorant affront to U.S. armed forces. I doubt that Bereza would be alive to say this were it not for the professional military men who led our civilian soldiers with magnificent brilliance in World...
...attacking the ethics of the entire draft procedure. The second most popular of Friday's resolutions made no specific policy suggestions but opposed universal military conscription "because it legitimatizes the use of individuals by governments as weapons of war, even against the will of the individual. This is an affront to human dignity, freedom, and life...
...were most pleased to see the editorial in the February 11th issue of the CRIMSON on the dispute at St. John's University. For the most part it rightfully characterized the dismissal of 31 professors well before the end of the semester, without charges or hearings as an affront to the academic community...