Word: insultingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S Dec. 24 review of Baby Doll is sickening. When you say an admitted stream of carnal suggestiveness is fit for your readers' attention because it is expertly served up, you insult your reader's moral integrity by implying that he has none. Elia Kazan may have had puritanic motives, but look at the lewd billboard and newspaper ballyhoo that sings the seductive praises of Baby Doll. Who's kidding whom...
...already have accepted posts include only three legislators, Senators Humphrey and Kefauver and Congresswoman Edith Green of Oregon. Consequently, Paul Butler's hope that powerful members of Congress would join seems to have been overly optimistic, if not naive, for in intent and organization the group was both an insult and a threat to Johnson, Rayburn...
...flood tide of criticism began to subside, ex-Ambassador Joseph Grew, RFE's boss (as chairman of Free Europe Committee, Inc.), angrily fired off a statement charging: "It is an insult to the brave Hungarian people to suggest that they have responded to any other influence than their innate love of liberty...
...assumption that Jews voted for Bob Wagner Sr. in the 1932 election because they were fooled into believing that he was of Jewish descent is an insult to the intelligence of Jewish voters. It is a well-known fact that Wagner won handsomely in "Jewish" districts because of his liberalism in domestic and foreign affairs. Most Jews vote according to their traditional ideals. This is the "Jewish" vote...
...Woman Voter" Monica Thomas, who wrote that embarrassing insult to American womanhood [Oct. il, is so concerned with putting an appealing; family group into the White House, I should like to suggest that next time she start the ball rolling early for the Gabor sisters...