Word: insultable
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...composer laughed off the insult -possibly because he saw worship in the puffy face of the speaker. Levant soon became a freeloading guest of George and Ira Gershwin until Leonore, Ira's wife, ordered him out of the house. Levant rose, paused, then sat down. "I'm not going," he told Leonore. "Why?" "Because," he mourned, "I have no place to go." Oscar stayed another two years...
Hardwick is offended and infuriated most of all, however, by "little things that come floating through the mail"; Women's Lib pamphlets and propaganda whose very language and terminology insult her intellectual sensibilities. "At whom is it leveled, what good do they think it will do?" she asks, understandably, from her position as successful and professionally independent woman. There were those who cringed, however, at an absent-minded answer she gave to the effect that there are "only one or two women writers one thinks of when looking at the nineteenth century." (Maybe some day the pamphlet will come floating...
...more advanced state of decay than anybody had thought. At this point it looks as if McGovern will have to do without their services. Both Meany and Daley have made it clear that they have been mortally offended, and neither is one to forgive or forget an insult, much less a public humiliation...
...women delegates were so faithful to Eve. Some wore conventional street-length dresses, studiously ignored the militants, deferred ostentatiously to men and even attended a fashion show. At one caucus, Minnesota Delegate Yvette Oldendorf, smartly attired in a pantsuit, rose to protest: "I find it an extreme insult to suggest that women delegates should be attending style shows while the men attend to the business of the convention," prompting the remark: "My God, it sounded like she was saying, They are slaughtering Christians down on 34th Street.'" Militants took action against women they considered to be traitors to their...
...Korea's 2.5 million Christians, 2 million Confucianists and 1.5 million members of splinter sects. The Christians charged that the design violated the spirit of a law prohibiting a state religion. Most offended of all, however, were the nation's 4 million Buddhists, who consider it an insult to link the Buddha to something as crass as cash. Last week President Chung Hee Park ordered the bank to redesign the note...