Word: annoyance
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...annoying for a student to see a resident guest or a non-resident professor limit his House appearances to the weekly Faculty luncheon. Logically, of course, the function of intermediary between Faculty and student should belong to resident tutors or House Committees; but the tutors are often too hung up in their own little world of grad school professionalism, while House Committees often limit their duties to maintaining the evening grill. The Gill Committee recently concluded that a senior should not be forced to remain on-campus if he is willing to pay his share of administrative expenses. Ideally, seniors...
...things like British Jaguars and Irish linens, devaluation is likely to prove a severe drain on Lyndon Johnson's dwindling political reserves. If the President makes substantial spending cuts, he stands to lose votes among those directly affected. If he gets his tax increase, he stands to annoy everybody-and the closer to Election Day 1968 the increase is enacted, the more annoyance he is likely to arouse. Nevertheless, nearly all his economic aides-and many businessmen-consider the tax increase essential in order to avoid an inflationary burst that could destroy the dollar's viability in world...
...eighth straight championship-he took on Bermuda's best in a two-out-of-three match series for the Prince of Wales Trophy. Rules of the match specified that neither crew could sail its own boat. Given their pick of U.S. boats, they unhesitatingly chose Susan, hoping to annoy Bus. He merely shrugged, closed his eyes, pointed-and sailed whatever boat it was (he does not even remember) to two straight victories...
...tranquil fish swimming around the churning blades, those pretty-grooming lectures to kids in smoldering ghettos. Public relations men can reach into the real world and play: arrange a conference here, a clambake there, strike now a religious chord, then a sexy blue note. This p.r. playfulness can offend, annoy and infuriate. Despite the excellence at the top of the profession, far too many p.r. men still think their chief function is to stage lunches, cocktail parties, junkets, cruises, screenings, no-news press conferences, and other nonevents. Releases are fired off without regard for destination or deadline. Throughout the entire...
...passing "his hands up and down from groin to tummy." Charles de Gaulle, observed in his London exile, has effeminate hands, lacking muscle and arteries in them, but already in 1941 is heard yelling "France, c'est moi!" at Nicolson in the Savoy Hotel. "His arrogance and fascism annoy me," writes Nicolson, "but there is something like a fine retriever dog about his eyes." Laborite Clement Attlee looks "like a snipe pretending to be an eagle," Anthony Eden is "fairly wobbling with charm," Lord Beveridge, father of the welfare state, looks "like the witch of Endor...