Word: offendable
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...reform, a program that suggests more than just eliminating poverty. The Left can do this without abandoning its traditional and fully admirable commitments--concern for the weak, suspicion of the strong, and respect for Constitutional rights. But just as surely the Left must be receptive to ideas that may offend delicate sensibilities though still stay within the bounds of the law. Herewith then are several ideas for a new liberal program on crime...
...barely a detail of his life has escaped the attention of aspiring Ph.D.s, from the fantastic fox-trot routines that earned him the nickname the "dancing madonna," to the exact spot where an artificial tulip stood in his Paris studio (painted white, leaves and all, so as not to offend his eye with the detestable color green). Like Kandinsky, the other fa ther figure of abstract painting, he was a Theosophist: a man given to dreams of the millennium, when material reality would wither away and leave an ideal domain of the pure spirit. Art would help in this great...
...handling foreign policy, the Reagan Administration sometimes seems to have a perverse gift for making a well-intended gesture in a way that pleases no one. A case in point is last week's decision on arms sales to Taiwan. The Administration's proposed compromise managed to offend, simultaneously, both China and Taiwan, and to alienate further a large constituency of American conservatives who fear that the President is abandoning their cause...
...outraged New York Times Columnist William Safire charged the Administration with "helpless tut-tutting" and said Reagan and his aides had been guilty of "moral paralysis." From the left, Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts denounced "some who say we cannot take a firm stand on Poland because that will offend the Soviets...
...officials. Allen stepped forward when another of the women tried to give Mrs. Reagan an envelope and some newsclippings. When asked by one of the women to sign a receipt for the envelope, Allen declined. He did not return the envelope, says the report, "because he thought it would offend" the Japanese...