Word: insult
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...there would just leave us alone in our graceful dotage. Instead the smart alecks at U.S. News and World Report have to get in the act by dumping us to fourth place in their university survey, behind some vo-tech school and that other college in Connecticut. To add insult to injury, Dan Quayle, who could spell Harvard with the help of a dictionary and RogerAiles, denigrated us during his nationally televised debate with Lloyd Bentsen. But of course Quayle was just following George Bush's lead in making "the Harvard boutique" (Store 24?) an issue in the campaign...
...idea that English is the only language worth knowing is not only an insult to the countries with whom we practice trade and tourism, but it is also a handicap to our own success and culture...
...votes. The union decided to allow only those workers who had signed union cards before last May's election to choose representatives to attend the first meetings with the University. This move was an outright betrayal of the ideology on which the union campaigned and an insult to those who supported the drive for representation...
...overcrowded house significantly detracts from the viewing experience, particularly when half your view of the stage is obscured by other audience members. Packing in an audience to the point of cramped discomfort for such an intimate play is an oversight on the part of the producers and an insult to the members of the cast, who merit the public's support. But if you don't mind craning your neck to catch the one-liners of Simon's hit-and-miss script, make yourself at home at Brighton Beach Memoirs...
...Brian Hecht's description of the observation of the 25th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination ("Citizen's Recall JFK Death," November 23.) His depiction of Kennedy School students obliviously carrying on "as usual" unmindful of that somber date is inaccurate and misleading. More than that, it is an insult to the entire Kennedy School community...