Word: insult
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cattily observe, "They study hard and they suffer so. They take no pleasure in their work. That's why they run off to Yale on weekends. And they don't connect the academic with their lives." An equally nasty remark from "a sharp-eyed Brooklyn College senior" prefaces this insult from "a faculty member": "I sometimes imagine that I see these girls on a conveyor belt which shuffles them through four years of college... to the altar and the kitchen...
...like a wound made by a jagged instrument. In many places it already is crumbling, but the Communists keep building it up, making it even higher. At first you wonder why it is so revolting to behold. Then you realize that the Wall was meant to be an insult to human dignity. As such it is a masterpiece; its execution is perfect because it is being wrought by artisans who consciously hate...
Miller himself set the tone of the debates that have raged over it when he wrote in 1934: "This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character....No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Despite Time, Love, Beauty....what you will...
...anything directly from female hands. ¶ It is not always necessary to observe local customs, but it is always advisable to find a graceful way of refusing. "The people in this area were polygamous. They wanted us to marry a few more wives. We didn't want to insult them, and cast about for an appropriate reason for refusing. We finally explained to them that our religion forbids us to marry more than one wife, and that it would hurt our wives at home to break this rule." For the guidance of Peace Corpsmen, the manual observes wryly...
...week's end, after the Russians added injury to insult to the assembled neutralists by setting off their bomb, there were signs that the reluctant leaders at Belgrade were getting the point. Senior Neutralist Nehru, who often sees two sides even when there is only one, took the speaker's platform, declared: "The danger of war comes nearer and nearer by the recent decision of the Soviet government to start nuclear tests. Our situation today is the most dangerous since World War II ended." The conference, he urged, should first address itself to this issue, laying aside...