Word: affront
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Dana Cotton, Acting Dean of the School of Education, and the others who were responsible for routinely acceding to the State Department's request that Sioris be made welcome at Harvard have committed a grave offense against the University. Their affront to the faculty and students of the University, not to mention the people of Greece, can hardly be made up for by an apology, but this at least they...
...definition of what constitutes poverty keeps going up, in the advanced country's equivalent of the underdeveloped country's revolution of "rising expectations." Poverty, once accepted as part of the human condition, is increasingly seen as an intolerable affront. Yet, simultaneously, the suspicion dawns that poverty cannot be abolished, after all, at least not in relative terms: even in a wealthy society, someone will always be at the bottom. At the same moment, moreover, the faith in America's almost endlessly expanding wealth is weakening...
...proclaimed that "it was a smashing defeat ?I don't know where he can go from here." The whip's job may not cut all that keenly with many voters, especially those who have no high regard for the Senate. A few Senators even thought that the affront just might goad Kennedy into saying "to hell with them" and running away. Assuming that Kennedy, as he repeatedly proclaimed, had no intention of jumping into the 1972 race, the defeat was not a total gain for Nixon. Byrd may be more philosophically attuned to some Nixon programs, but he takes...
...writing to comment on a review of The Greatest Musical Ever' Sung which appeared in your paper on November 19th. Quite simply, we found the review to be in had taste. To judge by reviewer Martin Kaplan, the Dunster House production itself was an affront to the religious sensibilities of many members of the Harvard community. Our first impulse was to ignore the whole matter, but we found so many people who have felt offended by it that we wish to speak publicly...
...transition, and now I've experienced the harmful aftereffects. So I was encouraged some-what yesterday at Jordan's when some six-year-old flatly refused to go up and sit in Santa's lap. The thing about department store Santas is that they take this reluctance as an affront to their personal appeal. So this Santa engaged the boy in a little heckling. "I think you're scared," he told...