Word: blunts
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...write-up about student protestors at Harvard. The Boston Globe has made several references to Summers’ “confrontational” nature over the course of their recent coverage, and the Washington Post, in their Jan. 19th report, mentioned his “reputation for blunt, sometimes brutal comments” in the first paragraph. Meanwhile, when the official transcript of Summers’ lecture was released late last month, The Crimson was one of the only publications to explicitly point out that he had never actually uttered the infamous phrase about “innate differences...
Even more instrumental in shaping his image, it seems, were the widespread, often starry-eyed reports of the blunt approach he took in dealing with colleagues and underlings when he wanted to get something done...
...Summers worked on smoothing his rough edges, the press stayed on his case—paying him a reluctant respect while insistently dwelling on his propensity towards blunt and unforgiving behavior...
...Vagina Monologues is written to exploit the guiding principle that the ability to laugh at something, or even just say it out loud, can blunt the edge of the controversial and allow us to confront the unspeakable. Thus, hearing other women’s experiences can, if nothing else, help us to think about our own. In fact, as a woman, it is hard to not to identify with and reflect on two skits (“Hair” and “My Angry Vagina”) that pointedly discuss the unnatural aesthetic standards by which...
...implications of a North Korea--Iran deal to share and test these missiles are grim. Equally ominous, Goss said, intelligence shows that North Korea is seeking to raise hard currency by peddling its missile technology to new clients beyond Iran. To blunt that effort, U.S. officials say, the CIA and other U.S. agencies are redoubling their efforts to track and intercept North Korean shipments and covert communications about advanced missile technologies. --By Elaine Shannon