Word: offending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Always the big shot," said Rosemary disdainfully. But she hadn't wanted to offend him. "I thought if it made him happy, fine. But ... our relationship was never mad or romantic. I'm not the type of person to give anything to anybody for anything, if you know what I mean." However, her troubles with Sidney increased. He got "terribly jealous and possessive." Said she, reminiscently: "A real jerk!" And on top of that, he kept embarrassing her with more & more gifts...
...movie which few people would have seen if such a rumpus had not been raised about it, was banned by the Regents. The Ozone Park theatre owner did not show "The Bicycle Thief" after local Knights of Columbus marched on the theater and threatened to picket unless the offending picture were withdrawn. The theatre owner fell ill with that same disease which has laid low radio and motion pictures and now infects television--he did not wish to offend any one. In recent years, various groups have also been offended by Walter Gieseking, Kirsten Flagstad, the motion picture "Oliver Twist...
Spellman's demand for more stringent censorship laws is the most ominous part of the campaign. Controversial pictures are bound to offend the sensibilities of certain groups; those who are so offended are free to stay away and save their money. They even have the right to picket theatres and hoot at those who attend. But they do not have the right to use their personal judgments as a standard for deciding what the public should or should not see. Such biased "purification" of public media in the guise of public protection has been identified with every dictatorship. The city...
...evoked such clerical indignation that Louis XIV banned and banished it after its first performance. Cambridge audiences will be inclined to do neither. For "Tartuffe" is a vivacious comedy, likely to delight almost everyone and, now that the Enlightenment and the French Revolution have taken their tolls, to offend none...
...Protestant Fundamentalist Carl Mclntire's International Council of Churches (TIME, May 16, 1949) was in agreement. Use of the bomb "to defend human freedom, if necessary" would offend no moral principles, it declared...