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Caroline Hunter, an assistant photographic scientist at Polaroid and a spokesman for the protesting employees, last night called the company's proposal "an insult to black people and all right-thinking people." She said her group would continue to encourage consumer boycotts against Polaroid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polaroid Announces 'Experiment' To Help Blacks in South Africa | 1/14/1971 | See Source »

...Women's Lib: A Second Look" [Dec. 14] was an insult to all thinking women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1971 | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...sooner had the American people again asserted their shrewd political sophistication at the polls [Nov. 16] than the forces of party politics, still unconvinced, sought to deceive and insult the very voters who had, over the past months, been forced to sift through the reckless rhetoric and shallow nonissues of one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history to find even the faintest trace of substance and meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 7, 1970 | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

Would they? Would Harvard students be taken in by a grinning hypocrite who came glad-handing his way down to Lowell House to pacify the natives whenever they got restless? Some of Brewster's stunts seem so obvious as to insult the intelligence even of Yale. A year ago, 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 year. Whatever that meant-since no president has tenure and can be fired...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Cabbages and Kingman The Greening of Yale | 11/21/1970 | See Source »

...Observes TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey: "Never has the American voter so totally thumbed his nose at outside interference, money, buncombe, hate and the lofty lamentations of the pious. Particularly in the last ten days, Nixon's campaign was an appeal to narrowness and selfishness and an insult to the American intelligence. He diminished the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: And Now, Looking Toward 1972 | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

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