Word: affront
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...respect, although I can discover in myself no reason for this. Therefore I was both perplexed by Fr. Auxentios' purposed ill-treatment and disquieted by his corresponding ill-treatment of Harvard. Furthermore, the reasoning processes which led him to find disparagement of Eastern Orthodox Christian traditions in a personal affront appear most strange to me. I would rather offer the above cited proverb as an explanation of the affair and use this opportunity to express gratitude to the University for its unwarranted and perennial gentility. And while speaking of ancient traditions, the following apothegm of St. Macarios of Egypt...
...Third World Coalition sponsors stated. The rally in no way intended to prevent Rachman from speaking. The HULSA made it abundantly clear in their information sheets and at the rally. Neither the noise made outside be inside abridged academic freedom. If anything, Rachman's speech was an affront to intellectual integrity...
Indignity by indignity, affront by affront, the lecturer carefully guides his students through the work. Even his slips are calculated: "Platitudes (sorry, latitudes)." There are no side trips for biography. Of the author's "maimed hand you will learn not from me," says Nabokov, turning back to the "irresponsible, infantile, barbed and barbarous world of the book...
...Booysen, acting principal of the University of Natal, one of the four involved, has told The New York Times that "we are totally opposed to any form of admission policy based on criteria other than academic criteria." His colleges have denounced almost unanimously the proposed quota system as an affront to the principles of university autonomy and racial equity in higher education. Furthermore, the senate of the largest institution involved, the University of the Witwatersrand, issued a pointed statement last month, nothing that the University's leaders condemned any attempt to "compel the university to become an instrument...
...massacre was a direct affront to the liberal government of Peru's President, Fernando Belaúnde Terry. Ever since Belaúnde's election in 1980, the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a shadowy group of self-styled Maoist guerrillas, has tyrannized the area around the picturesque Andean town of Ayacucho, some 350 miles southeast of Lima. Under the pretext of defying capitalism and central authority, the insurgents have attacked isolated police stations and assassinated villagers suspected of informing against them. In January, Belaúnde sent a 3,500-man task force to Ayacucho to deter...