Word: offender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waiting game is not his customary strategy, but it makes good political sense. There is no question that Connally would like to be President, but he chooses not to be too forward about it. He does not want to offend Republican regulars by seeming the brash interloper. He rejected the advice of former White House Special Counsel Charles Colson, who suggested that Connally go on national television and urge other Democrats to follow him into the G.O.P. "It would be presumptuous," said the former pillar of Texas Democracy, "to assume that the Republican Party has been breathlessly awaiting my entry...
Retailers will not be able to sell those meats for more than the highest prices that they had collected in the past 30 days. There will be no controls at all on the prices of animals on the hoof because the President did not want to offend farmers more than he had to and/or dry up supplies. But the hope is that, because retailers will not be able to charge more, they also will not be able to pay more-and that they will soon force prices down at the wholesale and farm levels. Later, going even further than...
This is the final word on the mouth. It is useless now to anyone in its unbending hate. It is useless to her in its deadness. And if thy right arm offend thee...
When Psalms of Two Davids opens this evening it promises to be controversial at very least. It is a spectacle that makes demands on its audience. The intricate kind of double-time scheme may puzzle some; the sex and violence, however stylized, may offend others. One transition in the action of the play simulates the passing of two years by a recitation of the Hebrew names for the months, repeated twice. The beginning of the play is a bizarre surging of voice and motion that rises to a fever pitch; some lines which sound strange at first haunt the whole...
...fine arts at New York University: "Nothing can be taken for granted. There is no such thing as the final word. What you read on a label in a museum hardly ever reflects the latest state of scholarship-there is an inevitable time lag, in part not to offend donors, in part not to disillusion the public." Largely, when it is a question of whether something was produced by the master himself or by a member of his workshop (and many old masters maintained extensive workshops), the eyeball alone is still decisive. Bernard Berenson freely changed his attributions...