Word: offendable
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...beaming important speeches to the whole nation, TV has also ensured that most politicians and their committees of advisers will orchestrate all oratory to offend the least number of voters. William Jennings Bryan, whose 1896 "cross of gold" speech was one of the last to get Americans out of a chair and make them do something (they gave him the Democratic nomination on the spot), once described eloquence as "thought on fire." Today, in an age of single-issue politics, the ambitious are careful to see that they do not get burned. Says NBC-TV's Edwin Newman: "Advertising...
...absolutely convinced we could have won...I have no idea what the federal judge (W. Arthur Garrity) was thinking of when he said there was 'no way' they could be convicted..."Hardoon insisted even after the deal was drawn up. But all along, Hardoon was very careful never to offend anybody--crammed into the Quincy House phone booth to speak with a federal judge who was considering blocking the arrests, Hardoon's first words were: "Judge Tauro, sir. Hello. I don't believe I've ever had the pleasure of meeting...
Ford began his day with an appearance on NBC's Today show that intrigued his early-rising aides and cheered the Reagan staff. When asked the obvious question of whether taking the second spot would offend his pride, he said: "Honestly, if I thought the situation would work, if all the other questions could be resolved, the problem of pride would not bother...
...Nixon's latest epic thriller. Evidently, Vietnam didn't qualify. That conflict, which cost the lives of approximately 1.5 million Vietnamese and Americans, was mere imagery, one must assume, not the real thing. Richard M. Nixon, once president, now resident, of the United States, posesses the rare ability to offend his readers even before they have opened his book. A man of real distinction...
...people are chosen, their political adversaries will raise hell and try to rouse the vast, annoyed center from its torpor. This is actually what happened in the Harberger case. But it has its disadvantages: the confusion about academic freedom that it produces, the unavoidability of enthroning lackluster figures who offend nobody, and, above all, the failure to deal with the root problem of politics secluded against opportunities for conflict or accountability. This situation is not just imprudent, it is unjust. It deprives those who oppose HIID's field programs of any effective form of representation, agitation, or resistance, while lending...