Word: offending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private higher education that you so vividly describe in your Kingman Brewster cover story [June 23] was expressed with unusual candor in 1959 by then University of Chicago Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton, speaking to state university administrators: "To put it in the crassest terms possible-and I know this will offend many of the brotherhood-it is hard to market a product at a fair price when down the street someone is giving it away." The decline of private education is bound to accelerate unless something is done about this...
...Cocteau seems to have known in the marrow of his Paris-burgher bones that the only successful French Revolution was that which had been conducted by the bourgeois, not against them. Although he liked to shock and astonish them on his own terms, he was always careful not to offend or challenge on their terms. Astutely, he wrote: "I know to what extent...
Grass-Roots Crusade. Having heard enough, McLendon directed all his radio stations (from Philadelphia to San Francisco) to quit playing songs that "offend public morals, dignity or taste." And just to make sure that certain kinds of recorded numbers would not get past his disk jockeys, McLendon announced that henceforth his stations would refuse any new record release "unless it is accompanied by a valid lyric sheet...
...whether he will please key groups in the body politic. The nomination must enhance presidential prestige, win instant legal applause-and, occasionally, satisfy precedents established by earlier Chief Executives. The court now has a "Jewish seat" (Fortas) and a "Catholic seat" (Brennan); if they are vacant, can the President offend those groups by appointing members of other groups...
Self-Righteous Zeal. Frei proved to be a dedicated reformer but a poor politician. In proceeding with his revolution, he managed to offend just about everyone. The Communists attacked his land-reform program because it stole, with little change, the thunder from their land-for-the-masses campaign promises. The landlords were unhappy because the government paid low prices for the expropriated property. A united front of leftist parties called FRAP attacked his plan to "Chileanize" the country's foreign-owned copper industry because it stopped short of nationalization. The rich complained about having to pay income taxes...