Word: affrontive
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...selection committee, however, has been even less interested in soliciting student input. Given the importance of the next President to undergraduates, it is an affront to them and to the central role of the College in the University that they have been shut out of the decision-making process thus far. The Corporation could go a long way toward opening lines of communication by releasing the short list of candidates and including students in the final stages of the interview process. Undergraduates at other universities have been integrally involved in the selection of their university presidents. In this area, Harvard...
...time, Bush and McCain were dodging the question of whether South Carolina should keep flying the Confederate battle flag over the state capitol, because they didn't want to alienate white Southern voters. The flag had flown there since 1962, a states'-rights rebuff to desegregation and a daily affront to blacks. In an attempt at conciliation, it was moved to another flagpole on the capitol grounds last July...
Edith Wharton wrote subtly withering novels of privileged folks whose moral myopia appalled her; she screamed in whispers. Lily is an affront to social order--the order of financial and emotional comfort. Her luck turns to ashes when she rejects love (Stoltz) for a betrothal that promises security. She must be reduced to poverty by an upper class tired of her coquetry and unaware of her special heroism in refusing to destroy a rival (Linney...
Harvard social politics also function in such a way that there exists a fine, almost indistinguishable line between the Good Guys and the Martyrs. The easiest way to attain Good Guy status at Harvard is to suffer some egregious affront--oftentimes in the form of a failed election attempt or an unfulfilled goal. As such, we fill our void of Good Guys with an overflowing reserve of Martyrs. Martyrs, after all, are safe to praise. They pose no threat to our own ambition, we can safely embrace them with compassion and bemoan the injustices that have been committed against them...
...polarize their fans. It's possible the fans will be more exciting to watch than the games. And who could ask for a better match-up than the Mets and the Yankees? The two teams are incredibly talented, and exciting to watch. Their payrolls are high--some people take affront at that--but it just means that the players are the best money can buy. We're lucky enough to be able to watch the World Series of World Series be played by baseball's best...