Word: offender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overall, the package seemed well designed to wend its way past the broadest political hazards. It appeases some conservatives by letting oil and gas prices rise?but does not offend liberals by removing controls completely or allowing the producers to reap higher profits. It encourages coal production and conversion, as well as a speedier expansion of nuclear power plants, without lifting environmental safeguards...
...show ends its Cambridge exposure on Sunday, when it will embark on a tour of Middle America, perhaps in search of some sensibilities it can more effectively offend...
Robert Penn Warren is one of the few distinguished literary men who can aim a novel at the gut and not offend the head. The reason seems to be that even in the age of the Uncertainty Principle and culture fracture, Warren has not lost his sense of life as a sustained drama. The classical Western values that have linked his fiction, poetry and criticism for nearly 50 years are largely responsible. He writes novels with beginnings, middles and ends. People are born, come of age, love, suffer loss, infirmity and death in much the same way people always have...
Nisbett's problem is at least partially understandable: Lorenz, an impressive-looking figure at 73, is not only alive and well but perfectly capable of raising quite a ruckus over any statements, in this book or others, that offend either his sensibilities or his sense of moral purpose...
...question here (for those readers who have been ignoring Cincinnati since its heinous transgressions of the will of God in the world series last fall) is freedom of the press, the press being a smut magazine which manages to offend more people than all its competitors combined. But more interesting than any of the legal issues raised by the conviction is the ambivalent nature of the anger which surrounds it. Everyone who has voiced public disapproval of the court decision, from Nat Hentoff and Nora Ephron to the New York Times, has prefaced his comments with a strong statement deploring...