Word: condescendingness
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Playwright Janusz Glowacki, 48, understands these frustrations all too well. After his novel Give Us This Day, about the birth of Solidarity, was banned by the Polish censor in 1981, Glowacki arrived in the U.S. as a virtual unknown. Hunting Cockroaches, which opened off-Broadway last week, transmutes his struggles...
"I thought that she made very patronizing and condescending remarks about the Caribbean, and I was offended by them," said Erica H.S. Samuels, a Wellesley junior from Jamaica who left the lecture. "Regardless of her explanation her remark was a racist one," she said.
IF IT was Tuesday, it must have been Paradise. Gloom and doom came into its own, donning its studded leather, ratting up its blue-black hair and condescending to strut its sinewy stuff in front of Peter Murphy, ex-lead singer of Britain's once most promising avant-garde band...
The Crimson's two articles the week before vacation about the homeless people in Harvard Square came just in time for winter and the holidays, seasons that make being homeless especially difficult. The articles focused attention on the problem but they showed a lack of concern when they neglected to...
In addition to recognizing by name the majority of the more than 450 students in Quincy House, Master Aloian energetically kept up with students and their academic and extracurricular pursuits. His genuine concern for all was evident as he threw himself into the role of master of the largest house...