Word: insulters
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...primary bill, and much of the debate centered on a chamber of commerce theme. The contrast, Florida pols contended, between candidates sloshing through the snow in New Hampshire and shirtsleeve campaigning in Florida would be certain to help the sunshine state's tourism. Florida sought to add insult to injury by scheduling its vote for the same day as New Hampshire...
...possible -we became smoke and ashes." And all those who returned are, in Kaniuk's idiosyncratically mordant view, insane. During the day they live well. They are allowed to work, make money, build houses, enjoy the illusion of progress. But at night they have nightmares and cry. "The insult scorches," the author explains. The knowledge, the final realization that they were "simply raw material in the most advanced factory of Europe, under a sky inhabited by God in exile, this information drives us crazy. Such humiliation! So we have turned this country into the largest insane asylum on earth...
...artist. The committee has been the butt of much criticism, particularly from artists who are not involved with the SoHo Artists' Association. Says Sculptor Don Judd, who owns an iron-front warehouse on Spring Street: "It is a threat, at least an insult, though possibly harmless since its operations seem unenforceable. Legalization won't mean much. You can't turn an area into an occupational ghetto. You can't say who is and isn't an artist. You can't throw citizens out. And none of this does anything about the problem of rising...
...insult the intelligence even, of Yale. A year age, for example, Brewster spoke in front of the Yale Political Union, an apolitical student forum, and gained national publicity for his proposal that any Yale president's term be "reviewed" by the Yale Corporation every seven years. Whatever that meant-since no president has tenure and can be fired at any time time-Brewster's first seven years just happened to be coming to a close and, to no one's surprise he was allowed-nay, encouraged -to remain at his post. In that same speech, however, he dismissed unilaterally...
...Lamont Library was first suggested, the CRIMSON, almost salubrious with the class's sense of the past, protested: "TheUniversity must not allow the Yard to disintegrate into just another Cambridge block. To do this while disregarding outside and convenient sites is to misuse a treasured locale and to insult generations of men who lived there...