Word: offending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...written elsewhere, especially in The Message in the Bottle (1975), a collection of essays on the oddities of language and mankind. Because Percy and Lancelot share some opinions, there will inevitably be those who assume that they agree on everything. And since Lancelot utters enough reactionary claptrap to offend everyone, Percy is likely to get a lot of angry mail, particularly from women. Says Lancelot: "What the poor dears discovered is the monstrous truth lying at the very center of life: that their happiness and the meaning of life itself is to be assaulted...
...gone, 90% of the regular staffers have chosen to remain-perhaps because, unlike the writers with contracts and outside assignments, they depend more on their salaries. They also got two reassuring visits from Murdoch himself. Said Financial Writer Dan Dorfman: "I'm accustomed to writing pieces that offend advertisers and friends of the editor. Will I still have that same freedom?" Said Murdoch: "Write about anything you please, even me, but just be sure you're right...
...single College generation. The way such deep-seated problems are attacked clearly draws a distinction between this report and a task force report such as the core curriculum group's. Whereas the core curriculum task force recognized that the general education system is failing, and was not afraid to offend the program's constituents, the college life task force preferred to duck the master problem altogether. Instead of addressing the fact that some masters are not performing their jobs adequately, the group simply asks that a new master's handbook be issued. Instead of trying to solve the problem...
...olive branch out to the Chinese. Since Mao's death, Radio Moscow's Chinese-language broadcasts have been stressing that "the fundamental interests in the two countries are identical." Recent speeches by Soviet officials have been notable for the absence of any political references that could offend Peking. This new diplomatic approach has yet to be reciprocated. At a Peking banquet last week for Jean-Bédel Bokassa, President of the Central African Republic, Chinese Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien accused the Soviets of "criminal actions" in Africa and of offering China "nothing but threats." The Soviet...
...jokes about some of the more unlikely vicissitudes of love, Italian-style, the film is turning a neat dollar apparently because of, not despite, its defects. The sex in this movie may not be very funny, but it is bawdy enough to be naughty without being graphic enough to offend. In other words, it is a safe sex comedy...