Word: offending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on the Milwaukee Journal boils down to this: 1) it is a rich paper and can afford to offend anyone, thus it is not fearless; 2) it is successful because it has no competition; 3) it fights McCarthy who fights Communism, but could not defeat McCarthy or Ike. We buy it because it prints Pogo...
Secret Mission. In Montgomery, Ala., the Chamber of Commerce got a letter from a woman in Florida: "Am returning herewith a pair of panties and a pin for refund ... I do not know from whom purchased. Know it was in your city and do not want to offend [the people who sent them to me]. Thanks...
When Eisenhower became President and established himself as a symbol of national unity, all these conflicting interests converged upon him. They hoped he could use his popularity to push through their programs. Since every positive action he took was bound to offend someone, he faced the choice of trying to break these deadlocks or dodging them. And by deliberately choosing the second alternative, he failed to meet the most pressing domestic problems of the nation. There is such a thing as a President being too popular to be effective, and that was Eisenhower during his first year of office...
...amusing. I seriously doubt that "most of London enjoyed a good cry" over this "tearjerker." London in 1740 was a sophisticated town, and . . . Richardson must have known what he was doing when he wrote a bedroom farce in a manner so naive and pious as to offend nobody. Fielding's heavy-handed satire proves only that he was better as novelist than as critic ... so perhaps we should be grateful that he missed the point of Pamela's wary innocence. That he would in the end prefer a tedious trollop like Amber, I very much doubt...
Next came the French. Joseph Laniel, the husky, stolid Norman industrialist who governs precariously as France's 19th postwar Premier, slipped in like a silent bystander, unable to speak English, unwilling to say much anyway-lest it offend those back home who were considering him as a candidate for France's next President. At his side was pale, ailing Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. The two Frenchmen mistrust each other; in fact, through the 18-hour flight from Paris, the Premier spoke not a word to the Foreign Minister. Neither was sure he would even be in office...