Word: affrontive
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...into three -- rather than the existing two -- divisions. To create an additional, ersatz round of league play-offs as an offering unto the Gods of Television (ABC and NBC, who will split the postseason telecasts), the owners agreed to let losers stumble into the postseason. Wild-card teams (an affront to purity invented in 1978 by the military-industrial complex that is pro football) will now contaminate baseball. Beginning in 1994, the also-ran team with the best record in each league will be invited to join the play- offs...
...also an affront to the entire Harvard community because it demeans our intelligence and ability to recognize stereotypes as unfounded biases and oversimplifications. Incidents such as these reaffirm stereotypes that all Black youth are criminals, not only undermining positive feelings about the increased enrollment of Black students next year, but also increasing racial tension on campus...
...Peter Kelly, in his letter the The Crimson (April 26) seems to miss the point of the protests against General Colin Powell's selection as Commencement speaker. Kelly writes of the gay community," [t] they are saying that Gen. Colin L. Powell's presence acts as an affront to homosexuals more than it does as a source of pride and admiration especially, but not exclusively, for Blacks at Harvard" (italics added). This is not precisely why I, as one member of the diverse "gay community," oppose Powell's selection...
Unfortunately, by branding General Powell as a bastion of "intolerance and homophobia," that is exactly what Powell's critics are doing--to hell with what he's accomplished and what he means to everyone else in the community. They are saying that General Powell's presence acts as an affront to homosexuals more than it does as a source of pride and admiration especially, but not exclusively, for Blacks at Harvard. Well, that's an impossible claim to make. Furthermore, I consider it an egregious error to discount every positive contribution a man has made because one disagrees with...
...have it in red?" I pondered aloud. The foetus took affront, proclaimed it a unique work, and left me to examine the wide range of sculpted animal droppings on offer...