Word: offend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years from clerk to chief cashier and deputy governor. Harold Wilson picked him to succeed Lord Cromer, who left at the end of his five-year term to resume his partnership in the famed banking house of Baring Brothers. The O'Brien appointment was calculated to offend neither the financial community of "the City," which would have resented the traditional selection of a Treasury aide, nor Labor's obstreperous left wing, which would have been unhappy with a private banker. O'Brien, who likes to play tennis on weekends at his Wimbledon district home, aimed his first...
...will Brooke offend the Democratic consensus opinion with his political views. Reprimanding his own party for its spirit of negativism, he says that the "central error of contemporary Republicanism is the tendency to regard massive Federal Government as an adversary." In The Challenge of Change Brooke presents poverty, civil rights, and urban renewal as three of America's most pressing problems and then offers general approaches that just extend the present Administration programs. Among his few concrete proposals is a suggestion to increase the total amount of foreign aid in order to devote more capital to industrial and agricultural development...
...very much was disturbed. Besides the front-page revision, a political cartoon has been added to the center spread, although to date it has been as bland as another addition, a quasi-gossip column, known as a diary, calculated to offend nobody. Even so, readers have already written anguished letters. The Times reassured them in an editorial: "There were far more vehement fears when the Times started a crossword puzzle. We hope that the Times diary will come to be as eagerly awaited and as highly regarded as the Times crossword...
...nature of his position does not allow him to speak out. As chairman of the State Committee, he must be prepared to work closely with whatever candidates emerge from the primaries; and as chief party fund-raiser, he can show partiality towards none. Above all, he cannot afford to offend Senator Kennedy, who proved conclusively in his 1962 battle with McCormack that he has the power to make or break almost any state Democrat at will...
...which playboyesque exaggeration has been substituted for wit. Contemporary audiences are largely unshockable; to build up enough pressure to get a laugh, humorists have begun to abandon sex to take up the grave topic of death, as in The Loved One, proudly promoted as a picture "with something to offend everyone." Yet audiences have generally proved shockproof to spoofs on death and destruction; they do not laugh because they understand, and says Playwright (A Thousand Clowns) Herb Gardner, "The worst killer of laughter is too much" understanding...