Word: offendable
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...magazine affair thus should be seen in the context of Allen's previous activities. He was just doing "old friend" Tomotso Takese a favor by setting up the interview and did not want to offend the Japanese visitors by refusing the thousand dollars. But Allen should have remembered that the "gift" violated American standards of ethics, the standards a high White House official is obliged to uphold. His entire career, in fact, has displayed a personal moral code highly inappropriate for a man in his position. Because of this continued record of memory lapses, mistakes, and most importantly, questionable morality...
...everything the victorious British did was so wise, and if they had not been so shortsighted in some ways, America might now be a much larger country than it is. Not wanting to offend the Indians-or interfere with the lucrative fur trade-London continued to prohibit settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachian Barrier Act was often ignored, but it nonetheless slowed development of the Far West-that vast area between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River. Only in this century have Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, for example, had populations large enough to qualify for provincehood; until...
...production is weakened by director R.J. Cutler's difficult struggle for a compromise between the Theater of Alienation and the Theater of Empathy. While well-acted, this production of Threepenny Opera lacks a social awareness of the play's context intrinsic to the epic theater. As if fearing to offend an audience too used to pleasurable theater and unwilling to be taught, Cutler has dismantled most of the instructive apparatus of Brecht's theater. But for the second Threepenny Finale, the placards bearing song and scene titles--the visual, literal representation necessary for didacticism--are wanting. While the narrator (Lars...
...Holland has long been a close ally of the United States and was one of the first members of the United Nations to recognize the Beijing government, the summer's events beg the question of what this tiny lowland state--traditionally and self-consciously moderate--could have done to offend these behemouths. The answer lies in Dutch government policies which blind it to the international consequences of its domestic actions...
These goings-on, or takings-off, stirred the wrath of an archdiocesan layman's group. In an irate open letter to Lord Mayor Erich Kiesl that drew banner headlines in Munich, the Catholic association declared: "The many nude people in the garden disturb and offend those decent citizens who want to use it for recreational purposes." Many citizens agreed. Asked Housewife Ingrid Steinberger: "Why should I be forced to look at naked behinds?" The letter also threatened vigilante action if the police refused to take steps. Equally outraged, though not notably logical, the forces of nudity argued back. Asked...