Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your review of this fine picture is positively nauseating, and an insult to the hundreds of thousands of scouters who devote their time, talents and energies to the youth of this nation. They do this, just as did "Scoutmaster MacMurray," because they believe adherence to the scout oath, or promise, by the youth of today will make better citizens tomorrow...
...career? Hardly. The irrepressible iconoclast bounced back, not by showing restraint but by being more boisterous than ever. As a TV interviewer, he became a master of the elegant insult. Even the people who hate him love to watch him. London's "Pop Socrates," as he is called, is equally intemperate in his writings, some of which have now been collected in a book, The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge (Simon & Schuster, $5.95). Muggeridge, says London Critic Colin Maclnnes, has the "gift of absolutely compulsive readability...
...really has no color either, only color tone carefully inserted by the laboratories, probably when they discovered that no one involved in making the picture had done anything about planning or controlling the color. Someone should stop amateurs like this Frankenheimer person from making movies. Grand Prix is an insult to the intelligence of the audience, but more important, it's an insult to the size of its screen...
...Korean. Spectators poured out of the stands. Lee Byong Hae, a member of the South Korean Parliament, was beaten by police when he tried to break up the brawl. Four Korean players were carted off to a doctor with broken teeth, cuts, bruises, and other assorted injuries. Adding insult to injury, the referee announced that because the Koreans were unable to continue play, the game was forfeited to Thailand. As a final fillip, somebody threw a dagger at one of the Korean players...
...show that the giver is an intellectual, not because the recipient might actually enjoy them. The situation is happily reversed if it is the recipient who is struggling to prove his intellectual status-then the book becomes a compliment, where Valley of the Dolls would have been an insult. This is particularly true with very good-looking girls, who always want to be taken seriously for their intellect (plain girls must never be given books, except possibly love poems...