Word: offender
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...become closed to ideas that are not considered “correct” by some criteria that we do not understand and on which we never had the opportunity to vote. University President Lawrence H. Summers was ousted not only for expressing a multitude ideas that somehow offended devotees of the conventional wisdom—not only his comments on women and science, but also his statements on divesting from Israel and on the history of American Indians, for example.Moreover, Harvard students no longer have the option of earning commissions and serving their country in convenient and Harvard-based...
...clear people are tired of walking on eggshells, afraid to offend those with different beliefs, ideas, and lifestyles. It's grown exhausting, and they want their lives back. The idea of diversity seems to have worn out its welcome. It is now like a house guest who has stayed too long...
Give directorScott Elliot credit. The Brecht-Weill classic has lost some of its power to offend the bourgeoisie, but this audacious new production managed to outrage nearly every theater critic in New York City. Wallace Shawn's new translation goes a bit overboard in its ostentatious crudeness, but the show seems reinvigorated in every way, from the decadent-chic Isaac Mizrahi costumes to a terrific cast of singing actors--among them Jim Dale, Alan Cumming, Ana Gasteyer and Cyndi Lauper--who make the great, astringent score sizzle again...
...here—humbly titled “The Greatest Musical Ever Sung”—Durang has rattled the religious and artistic communities. To this day, he claims that he didn’t mean for the “The Greatest Musical” to offend anyone—he just wanted to write an Irving Berlin-esque musical comedy about the Gospels, complete with song titles like “Everything’s Coming Up Moses.”The Crimson, in its review of the show, advised those who “still...
...this was, without a doubt, the tidiest political operation he'd ever seen. There was none of the back biting, staff shake-ups or power struggles that were a constant plague upon Democratic campaigns. There was little of the hand wringing about whether the shading of a position would offend the party's interest groups. Issues, in fact, seemed less important than they did in any given Democratic campaign. And McKinnon had come to a slightly guilty realization: maybe that was a good thing. Rove's assumption was that voters had three basic questions about a candidate...