Word: affrontive
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Although the University of California does not yet even have any contracts with Iran, the Daily Californian, the student paper, protested: "That the University of California would even consider dealing with such an oppressive, totalitarian regime is an affront to the ideals of a free university." U.C. Vice President Durward Long disagrees. Says he: "We consider assisting developing nations to improve their educational capacities in the interest of their people...
...coincide with his specialty. But knowing all my professors--or rather having them know me--from the annual cocktail parties we had when my father was chairman, places me under a certain pressure. I feel badly about skipping lectures because it might be considered something of a personal affront. The situation is much worse with tutors and section people. After giving my name at the first meeting of a section this year, the sectionwoman asked: "Are you related to Morton Bloomfield?" "Yes, he's my father." "Oh, well he's one of my thesis advisors." Both my sophomore and junior...
...Irish carefully collects statistics that many other books on the country ignore. Taken together, they only underscore the obvious: Ireland is a marvelously consistent affront to rationality. O'Hanlon knows this. What is more, he does not mind giving the things he deplores their due. In an exasperated chapter on the Catholic Church and its dominion over the republic, he cites Tocqueville's brilliant insight of more than 100 years ago: priest and peasant stood together against the common Protestant landowning enemy. Nothing that has happened since, including England's 1922 exit from the 26 Southern coun...
...Russians were appalled by the strident congressional debate on the issue and the publication of letters between Kissinger and Senator Jackson spelling out Soviet assurances to let out more would-be emigres "promptly." They perceived the public ventilation of diplomatic dealings -normal in a free society-as an affront to their sovereignty. As a Soviet intellectual in Moscow put it: "Jackson's triumphant statements were a mistake by him and a provocation to us." Besides, by refusing to submit to pressure, the Russians no doubt were hoping to damage the presidential chances of a man whom they regularly denounce...
...combine paintings" that, so much later, remain his best-known works. How outrageous, how iniquitous that tire-girdled Angora goat looked in 1959! What perversity seemed to lurk behind Rauschenberg's gesture of erasing a drawing by Willem de Kooning and exhibiting the sheet! How dandyist an affront to spontaneous sincerity, the idea of painting two abstract expressionist canvases, Factum I and Factum II, almost identical down to the last drip...