Word: insulters
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...Soviet culture commissars, who refused to publish the book-a bestseller in the U.S. and Europe-the highest honor in the literary world came as a dastardly capitalist insult, and they promptly went into one of their vitriolic temper tantrums. The Moscow Literary Gazette sputtered that the award was made "for an artistically squalid, malicious work replete with hatred of socialism," written by a traitor, and Pravda said that this "malevolent Philistine" would regret the prize if there were "a spark of Soviet dignity left in him." Prizewinner Pasternak, a gentle genius of craggily handsome countenance and unflinching integrity, sent...
...five men to leave a group for which they have diligently worked, a group which is acknowledged by other Ivy cheerleaders as the "best in the league" and which actually pays for many of its own expenses out of the squad members' pockets, is adding a degree of insult to injury which is absolutely intolerable. In such a case as this, personal dignity prohibits any member of the squad from cheering if any man is cut from the group...
Originally, Samuels said, no official greeting was planned, because "there usually isn't one." However, he added that because of Menshikov's unexpected early arrival yesterday, some officials of the University feared that "it might be considered an insult if the appropriate greeting" was not extended...
...simple little murder have been brought against Russia's masters, and, as acted by old Matinee Idol Melvyn Douglas, Stalin nearly emerged as a grand old man. But New York Times Critic Jack Gould thought the cloak-and-daggerotype-which mixed painstaking research with fantastic guesswork-an insult to a government "with which this country maintains formal, if very strained, diplomatic relations." The Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. agreed. "Smiling Mike" Menshikov called the play "a filthy slander against the Soviet Union . . . incompatible with international standards." With that, he fired off a protest to the State Department...
...Ford) takes place in 1913, in pioneer cinema days when redskins were swarming all over Fort Lee. The show itself concerns a short-on-cash, long-on-ego moviemaker and a sizzling-tongued actress he corrals for shotgun movie heroics on the eve of her society marriage. Communicating by insult, the two keep throwing knives at each other without for a long time realizing that they are actually Cupid's darts...