Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject of the article itself. The faculty is, no doubt, fair game for the Crimson, and I am sure your whole story was intended to be very amiable and flattering to me. You must realize, however, that the repercussions in the outside press from such a story might seriously embarrass one who holds a very important public office. My own views are so extreme that they are incompatible with political responsibility to an electorate that certainly holds quite different views, so far as I can see. To attribute any sympathy with them to one of our most responsible statesmen...