Word: insultable
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...coffee. Then, brown paper lunch bag on the seat beside him, he drives to work in a two-toned Karmann-Ghia. Although lunch is slim-a sardine sandwich, an olive, a cooky and a glass of skim milk-Keys eats with deliberate slowness. "I don't like to insult food," he says. Lunch done, he sits back, closes his eyes, and goes to sleep for exactly ten minutes in his office chair...
...Ghana, if a child should die before it is nine days old, the Fanti simply stuff its remains in a pot and throw it on the trash heap-they take the child's hasty departure as an insult and feel no obligation to respect the departed. Among Orthodox Jews, when two dead men arrive for burial at a cemetery, the more learned of the two, according to Talmudic prescription, must be buried first. In the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia, the Salish Indians dispose of their dead by rolling an avalanche over them. In China, since the Communists took...
...most poignant self-deceit was in expecting a closer liaison with Shaw. He incessantly reminded her of the age difference. When G.B.S. was 90 and his wife Charlotte had died, the unteachable Molly proposed to live with him, and Shaw was scandalized: "The degradation to Literature, the insult to Charlotte's memory would be such that I should be justified in shooting you if there were no other way of preventing you from crashing my gates." Yet his last postcard to her a year before his death (she died last summer) is a bit of romantic doggerel ending with...
...next essaying Bach's Coffee Cantata and Locke's masque Cupid and Death. Both are works of high quality readily stageable and technically rather easy--well within the grasp of student performers. Yet the participants adopted so cavalier and irresponsible an attitude toward preparation that the result was an insult to the audience and, uniquely in Harvard's post-War theatrical history, managed to achieve total disaster. When, near the masque's end, the principals were poised in the balcony arches above the Fogg Court, one felt a nearly unconquerable desire to yell, "Jump...
...philosophy. The Republicans offer a government that speaks only when spoken to; whose method of operation is that of reaction to stimuli; whose policy toward strangers is to set up a Neighborhood Protection Association; whose policy toward enemies is to slap and howl when stung and to exchange insult for insult; whose policy at home is to throw the dogs a crumb when their barking becomes too loud. The Democrats, on the other hand, offer the promise of systematic programs to meet the needs that eight years of non-government have neglected...