Word: affront
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...easy, nor is it easy to put down, but it isn't quite art either. The fact is, Patterson is an affront to every Romantic myth of the artist we have. He's not tortured. He's not poor. He doesn't work alone, and he's way too unsentimental about his work. Of The 5th Horseman, he shrugs, saying, "I don't think it's terribly worth reading, honestly. I think it's fine for that kind of series." But maybe it's time to let go of a few Romantic myths. There's something to be said...
...lose 15 percent of the University’s operating budget. The United States Armed Forces’ “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which prohibits openly gay men and women from enlisting in the military, is an affront not only to HLS’s nondiscrimination policy, but to the standards of tolerance and equal opportunity so central to our University community. The Solomon Amendment, however, prohibits the University from resisting this policy by banning recruiters. Harvard is not in a position to forgo $400 million each year. These...
...community than secretly wishing away entire subgroups of our peers ever could.Perhaps a moment of common humility—I am, I realize, ideally situated to lecture on this particular virtue—will convince us all that any attempt to define Harvard along exclusionary lines is a radical affront to our complex undergraduate population. Until then, I shall simply have to resign myself to the fact that a strong college community simply doesn’t exist at Harvard. Paul R. Katz ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Hurlbut Hall...
...Richard Kusnierek Orange Park, Florida, U.S. I was upset when I read that the church may revive a ban on even celibate gays in seminaries. What purpose is served by barring a celibate gay male from entering the seminary or the priesthood? The church's witch hunt is an affront to me and many others who see it as a thinly veiled attempt to equate homosexuality with sexual abuse by priests. Homosexuality does not predispose a person to commit a crime against a child. The Catholic Church is trying to divert attention from fundamental institutional problems and from its inept...
...excuse to diss the military: Harvard has been antagonistic towards the armed services since long before anyone ever talked about gays in the military. Bowing to pressure following the 1969 takeover of University Hall by Vietnam War protesters, the school ended official recognition of campus ROTC activities, an affront not only to our nations defense, but to the many students whod voluntarily signed up to serve our country. Apparently these protesters wanted even more young people to be subject to the draft, because that was the likely result...