Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What an insult to the educators of the U.S.! So the trustees of Columbia University do not consider any professor in the entire country worthy to be president of that university. They must choose for that office a man [General Eisenhower] who never has had any connection with an educational institution. They must choose one who has no claims to scholarship along any line, one who knows nothing of ancient or modern languages and cultures, nothing about the vast realms of modern science, nothing about the intricacies of research, or even about the qualifications making for success in teaching...
Ardor & Judgment. It is Mann's tolerant, middle-of-the-road approach to man that has infuriated extremists of Right and Left, who have denounced him as a prominent but typical bourgeois. But to Mann, this insult is a compliment, because he believes that it was precisely the bourgeois soil of the 18th and 19th Centuries that nourished the traditions he most admires. Goethe, a dutiful privy councillor of Saxe-Weimar as well as a world poet; Tolstoy, a schoolteaching aristocrat who tried to look like a simple peasant-these men were cradled by the "bourgeois ideal of individual...
...writing tunes and a misguided mania for hyper-sophisticated lyrics (Psychopathology, psychopathology, you're the girl for me, he yammers abstractedly, trying it on for the polysyllables). He is sure that all a songwriter has to do to panic Park Avenue nightclubbers is to write lyrics that insult them enough. But when the Big Chance comes, the customers don't see it his way and Eddie and his good friends Miss Edwards, Constance Moore and Gil Lamb are suddenly at liberty...
Sometimes one of his Dodgers gets too deep in debate with an umpire, and that calls for Technique No. 3. The trick is to take over the fight. He thrusts out his chin, wags a threatening finger under the ump's nose, and as a final insult kicks sand on the umpire's shoes. Says Durocher: "Sure, I get bounced but my player stays...
...widower who loves to toy with the idea of marrying again-and is dumfounded to learn that his rapacious heirs are plotting to have him shut up in an asylum. The other is Versilov, Arkady's father, a shrewd but patient man who well comprehends the feelings of insult and injury that seethe inside his illegitimate...