Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...essentially dull. Genet's conception of the entire world as a brothel may have shocked Broadway critics four years ago. But the idea seems pretty tame now. When Shelley Winters explains this Weltanschauung in the movie's fade, for the benefit of the slow-witted, she adds a powerful insult to a rather mild injury. As for sensuous aspects, devotees of this limited segment of cinema art had better stick to Washington Street. There is nothing in The Balcony that could overly disturb a Puritan Sunday picnic...
...demoralized status in society. As far as I am concerned, and perhaps other Negroes as well (though I accept Riesman's point in a recent letter to Commentary that in such discussions as this it is perhaps best to speak for oneself) this is a pathetic addition of insult to an already gross injury...
...publicized the story until the grocer declared that President Grant arrived at his house aboard a cloud. When a witness was testifying in an investigation of the Treasury Department in 1837, a Congressman addressed the committee chairman: "I wish you would inform this witness that he is not to insult me in his answers. If he does, I will take his life on the spot." The chairman, who was naturally carrying a revolver, sympathized. "I watched the motion of [the witness'] right arm, and had it moved one inch, he had died on the spot. This was my determination...
Teen-agers aren't being sophisticated: they're being asinine about the whole music industry-especially folk music. Rock 'n' roll is too superficial to be of any lasting value, while the folk songs they insult will live...
...Administration has not even tried to answer. Why, for example, did the Administration not negotiate an agreement with Britain before the announcement to cancel the Skybolt program was made? And then why was the Polaris deal not announced in the same statement which dropped Skybolt, thereby reducing the inevitable insult to Britain and avoiding the period of international recrimination? Why, above all, was de Gaulle given graphic evidence of the fickleness of American commitments, thus further enfeebling NATO? What, in short, possessed the Administration to conduct for three weeks an asinine foreign policy...