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...Petty Insult. Nenni's plan infuriated the fellow travelers in his party's high command. "A scandal,'' cried one. Shouted another: "For a few corrections in the capitalist system, they are offering the breakup of the workers' movement." But Nenni's proposal carried...
Angrily, Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti called Nenni's program a "serious and grave" threat "to isolate not the Communist Party, but the whole working class." As further proof of their injury, the Reds turned to petty insult, stopped calling Nenni "Comrade," a salutation they have used since World...
...time at all, Panamanians were deep in name-calling of their own. "An insult to Panamanian sovereignty," cried the Panamanian Students' Federation. When Thatcher himself and U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball turned up for the dedication, rioting Panamanian youths swarmed up the steel framework, waving Panamanian flags and shouting "Thatcher No, Americas Si!" Thatcher's name was ripped from the bridge plaque. The rest of the dedication ceremony, including a scheduled speech by Thatcher, was hurriedly canceled. Still, everyone agrees, it is nice to have the bridge, whatever its name...
...conversation, his letters were not so witty as his talk. Rather, the letters confirm Pearson's estimate of Wilde as a man utterly without meanness of spirit, the kindest and most gracious of egomaniacs. Constantly he is seen doing a kindness, praising another author, gracefully laughing off an insult. His own wit, unlike that of his artist friend Whistler, almost never dealt in insults (except when he was insulting Whistler; Wilde observed in one letter that Whistler's only really original artistic opinions were those in which he claimed superiority to other artists...
...seen on the screen. All too often, when a shell bursts, out come hearts and flowers. And at every opportunity the screen is cluttered with low-comedy Krauts and G.I. jokers. Such tricks may be good show business but they are also bad history and bad taste. They often insult the intelligence and sometimes insult the dead...