Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signed statement, Rusk has several options to employ to soften the militancy of Chinese Communism and create more cordial relations between the two countries. Yet in 1966, one still finds Rusk referring to the capital of China as "Peiping"--its name under the Nationalist regime--a senseless insult to the present day Chinese...
...With four strangers," says Joseph, "you couldn't insult each other the way we do. There is no malice, and we get it all out of our system. It's very healthy." All members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the brothers practice 20 hours a week at their old homestead in the Germantown section of the City of Brotherly Love. "When things get too violent," explains Robert, "Mama has to come in from the kitchen to mediate." There is nothing, they say, like Mama's eggs in purgatorio (fried eggs smothered in sautéed tomatoes...
...gifts as a writer. In this disjointed collection of essays, the promise is flatly withdrawn. Jones clings raptly to his privileged role as victim, and has settled for a career as blackwash expert. He modestly admits to black sexual superiority: "Most American white men are trained to be fags." Insult, in fact, is his single weapon: "The American policeman is the foulest social category in the world today." "The white man, at this point in history, is the major obstruction on the path of man's progress." His solutions are disarmingly simplistic: "When those four children were killed...
...fail to say that the mob, not the pacifists, are the anarchists in ignoring the law; that the mob were the cowards with their 10-1 odds; that the mob supported the Viet Cong by using its despicable, terroristic tactics. Incidents like this are an insult to the American democratic process; it makes me ill that TIME can write about it without condemning...
...TIME was not objective in reporting sightings of unidentified flying objects [April 1]. Journalists are under no obligation to accept blindly explanations of the "authorities," especially when those explanations insult the integrity and intelligence of responsible observers. Probably a vast majority of sightings can be rationally explained, but we are not convinced that all observers are mistaken. WILLIAM BRAINARD, KATHERINE OLSON JOHN HUDELSON, WILLIAM JONES JR. Research Engineers, NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland