Word: insult
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...mother (Esther Rolle), who abandoned her three children in their Chicago housing project to move to Arizona to be with her new man. Says Rolle, who quit the show because of her differences with the producers over the way the characters were portrayed: "It was an outrage, an insult." The Rev. Jesse Jackson may have the most useful idea, which he offers to high school students in speeches: Just turn the damned thing off and study...
...comedy. In dramatic series, good, responsible characters can be developed and portrayed by blacks, intermixing them with whites; in comedies, the producers are highly tempted merely to satirize black family life, exaggerating and distorting it. Every harassed, desiccated TV writer knows how to get a laugh with a bellowed insult or ostentatiously jivy dialect...
...standards, like a love-in. For an entire week one and all behaved as though Norman Vincent Peale were in the locker room. Jackson reported to camp early in his silver and blue Rolls-Royce Corniche and shook hands all around with egalitarian humility. Thurman Munson managed not to insult anyone through the simple expedient of keeping his mouth shut. "I'm not talking today," he said, day after day. Expensive Benchwarmer Ken Holtzman arrived sans his cavalryman's mustache, perhaps hoping that Martin might mistake him for a fresh-faced rookie and allow him to throw...
...core subcommittees. Last week members of the Faculty Council insouciantly ignored a request by the CUE and the ERG to provide for such student representation, and also turned their backs on a host of other recommendations including the establishment of a departmental by-pass mechanism. This merely added insult to injury. The total indifference of the Faculty Council to student opinions can do nothing but foment a somewhat cynical and defiant attitude among students. It becomes difficult for students to discern the differences between liberal Harvard and their equally paternalistic high schools back home. Representation on these committees would...
...said: "I'll always give money to another woman. We're in this together. I wouldn't give money to a man if his clothes were falling off and he was starving to death.") So does the general attitude that it is perfectly all right for women to insult, attack or condemn men as viciously and as often as they please, but any man who says a word against women is to be condemned...