Word: insulter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, and social class is the best single indicator of how well children are going to read...Now it is not as though if we had a utopian society there still wouldn't be reading problems, or uneven rates of development. But if you have the combination of biological insult and developmental pressures...And families may serve as the immediate transmitter of culture to the child. So that even apart from the effects of malnutrition and so on, if you ask mothers from a lower social class what they would like their children to become, they give you the same...
...Simon with his connoisseur's bachelor pride and his crook's cool, is sexually antique. He goes after her like a bullfighter (or the bull) with every gimmick going in the old sexual catch business. He feeds her the lines he figures she wants to hear: "I wouldn't insult a woman by proposing," and the sticker, "A woman is a man who cries." (What instincts.) Which is what--the brute man that he is through and through--she finally succumbs to. He gets his first handle on her heart when he outwits her in a deal over a Louis...
...impossible, however, to leave Conrad Rooks's filmed Siddhartha without gingerly reaching for one's wallet to make sure it's still there. This unspeakable insult to the cinema and to the India it depicts has all the imaginative variety of a Hare Krishna marathon in Harvard Square, and the P.T. Barnum mentality lately put to profitable use by a noted fifteen-year old mob leader who drives a Rolls-Royce. Never has the search for eternal cosmic wisdom been so short (an hour and a half), seemed so long (an eternity), and revealed so little...
...once again managed to insult the faculty, accusing them of acting "under extreme pressure and in great haste" in abolishing ROTC. He is apparently unaware that the initial faculty decision on ROTC in 1969 was made two months before the building takeover and strike...
...week's end, despite a massive police and army manhunt, the escapees had not been found. To add insult to injury, the daring jailbreak cost the I.R.A. not a penny. Irish Helicopters Ltd. had rented the Alouette to the mysterious "Mr. Leonard" without asking for any advance payment...