Word: offending
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Liberal Party leader Lester B. Pearson will almost certainly succeed Diefenbaker as the Prime Minister of Canada. He has taken an uncompromising stand on the two gravest issues: biculturalism and nuclear arms policy. Although Pearson's pro-nuclear posture will offend some of the pacifist French Canadians, his recognition of the importance of the French role in Confederation should overcome any serious opposition. In addition, Liberal Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec, has consented to aid the national party's cause in the providence. His popularity will draw undecided voters into Liberal's ranks. The key to a Liberal victory...
...femininity is a matter of fashion: "In some cultures women have done hard labor, while in others they have been thought of as fragile and weak. Sometimes they have been priestesses, but elsewhere they have been thought unclean and unfit for priestly duties . . . The moral is that what will offend, anger, or alarm a man in woman in one society, will in another seem to be right, natural, and inevitable-and therefore feminine and attractive...
...silence on the desert has found little better to do than dash off a piece on pugilism for Show magazine, bared his fangs in anticipation. "I'm not a member of the Birch Society," said he, "but I have seen nothing in their program or their policies to offend me." So saying, Columnist Pegler dispatched to his new employer an obituary on Eleanor Roosevelt. Said the man who long delighted in calling Mrs. Roosevelt "La Boca Grande" while she was alive: "I haven't changed my mind. The press eulogized her as the first lady of the world...
...that is comforting for New York. Eventually it will be faced by the New York State Theater and the Metropolitan Opera House, both to be built in the similar style with columned facades. Only the Juliard School of Music which will stand to the rear of the Philharmonic will offend the basic scheme and even that offense is not a particularly serious...
...reasons, unfortunately, is particularly meaningful--or rather, each means far to much. The first approach, for example, can lead directly to the authorization of certain military aid programs whose well-publicized results are to encourage powerful military elites or rulers in some countries (like Pakistan or Argentina) and to offend other governments in neigh-boring countries (like Afghanistan or Thailand). It can also lead to Congressional veto of funds whose usefulness in the immediate bipolar cause is hardly obvious. The second approach has the advantage of subtly prodding the guilt-consciousness of Representatives or their constituents. But the Congress...