Word: insultable
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Attacking the affidavit as an attempt to regulate beliefs rather than actions or expressions of the beliefs, Moise said that "this oath, a studied insult to intellectual freedom, may establish a dangerous precedent which will be followed through the next generation...
...retaliation for this "insult" to the Soviet people, Evtushenko was berated as a "pygmy cosmopolitan." Last month, more than 5,000 young Muscovites showed their feeling by packing around the statue of Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. chanting: "We want Evtushenko." Their hero mounted to an improvised platform and read a poem, You Can Call Me a Communist, but which pointedly declares: "I will remain firm to the end and never become an unctuous bootlicker...
...were simply looking for an incident--any incident--on which to base an anti-American demonstration, they could no doubt satisfy themselves with the adage that the ends justify the means. But insofar as the students feel that the outburst was an expression of justified indignation against an unforgivable insult, their own offense against Miss Michelmore's privacy has rather undermined their claim to righteousness. And if the description given by Miss Michelmore is as inaccurate, stereotyped and insulting as the Nigerians claim, one wonders how their diplomats can provide such a compelling picture of economic need when development money...
...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...