Word: offending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...director of the Quincy House Christmas Play cancelled the performance seven hours before curtain time last Saturday because the Master and Allston Burr Senior Tutor said it might "offend religious sensitivities...
...most interesting finding was that having been ordered by the Supreme Court to judge the book in the light of contemporary community standards, it was impressed by the fact that the book was a bestseller. Its conclusion, therefore, seemed to be that anything that sells obviously does not offend community standards...
...messy maneuverings of everyday life, Buckley would like to see a clear-cut ideological division between the two parties: all the conservatives in the Republican Party, all the liberals in the Democratic. Today's unwieldy, ideologically impure parties, somehow absorbing all sorts of seemingly incompatible groups, profoundly offend him. As Barry Goldwater told him: "As a political kingmaker, you're a wrong-way Corrigan...
Commercial television almost always has second thoughts about getting involved in controversy; sponsors always fear to offend. Thus, the hard-hitting point of view falls to the province of public TV. The educational channels still have far to go before developing consistently top-grade talent and programming, but more and more they are showing that they can handle controversy with skill...
...pounder, little of it muscle, Matchan commutes by private helicopter to his home on the isle of Jersey, one of Britain's semiautonomous Channel Islands, where he lives in noisy defiance of mainland inheritance taxes ("they offend my nostrils"). With his 96% stockholding, he runs Cope Allman with a spare, 25-man head-office staff "because I dislike middle management and all that sort of thing," likes to make patriarchal, publicity-grabbing visits to the firm's 15,000 worldwide employees. He frankly favors a personality cult as good management policy, "as long as the personality doesn...