Word: affrontive
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...U.S.S.R.'s big mistake is not that it has offended us. It has offended a nation with a large Muslim population; it has offended Islam. Let the Muslim people take the lead in dealing with the Soviet affront...
...about diarrhea," says the earnest pitchman. T shirts, sweatshirts and bumper stickers proclaim their aggressive little editorials. Some are mildly funny (a woman's T shirt, for example, that says so MANY MEN, so LITTLE TIME). But often they are crude with a faintly alarming determination to affront, even sometimes to menace. They are filled with belligerent scatology. Something or other always SUCKS...
...depressing quality of much American public behavior-from Connors to T shirts-is its edgy meanness. Bad enough that it is calculatedly cheap. Worse is the stolid nastiness of it, the rock in the snowball, the compulsion to affront. Even re lentless candor - wounding friends or family by telling them their defects in the name of honesty-is a symptom not only of stupidity but also of unkindness and buried anger...
...PROBLEM WITH Lysistrata is that it's just not ready. The rewritten script, while something of an affront to Aristophanes, could work, given time and proper direction. There's talent on that Winthrop stage, but it has not yet been polished into a presentable production. The actors all have their lines down; now it's time to start working on delivery and blocking. Perhaps they should go back into rehearsal and open again in April...
...required in the faculty contract for firing professors. Such a stance by the university only serves to inflame tensions and provoke hostilities. Moreover, it is but one more example of the recalcitrance, intolerance, and mismanagement that has characterized Silber's administration. We urge B.U. to step back from this affront to academic freedom and to drop proceedings against the professors...