Word: offending
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Without Japan's complete support, other Asian states were reluctant to support Taipei. "Many countries, particularly those on the periphery of China," said a U.N. delegate from Southeast Asia, "are wondering if they should offend China by supporting the American proposal when it's not clear how far the U.S. itself is going to stick its neck out." Even Australia and New Zealand refused to co-sponsor the U.S. resolution, and at week's end the dismal list of co-sponsors included only the Philippines, Chad, Colombia, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras and Swaziland. The plain fact...
...human race. And it is one of the main things we have to confess in the Mass. I have been interested in Catholicism since I was very young, and I learned a lot from my wife, who was brought up a Catholic. I was naturally very eager not to offend the Catholics or the Kennedys, and yet there was pretty violent stuff. You see, I have not written a Mass. I have written a theater piece about a Mass. It cannot be performed in a church as a Mass. Yet it is still a deeply religious work. The Communion...
...publication that is apt to offend some sensibilities?even large ones ?part of the price of maintaining a truly open society? "We have never paid it before. To my knowledge, this is the first time in history that a government's right to carry on some of its business outside the public eye has, in effect, been challenged...
Drawing Distinctions. U.S. planners tried to make the Chinese and Soviet lists as identical as possible. They knew that even the slightest disparity would offend Peking and buttress Chinese suspicion that the U.S. and Russia are partners in a conspiracy to keep China economically and militarily weak. At present, Sino-American trade amounts to only about $3.5 million in indirect deals mainly for chemicals and diesel engines. Chinese trade officials in Hong Kong have told U.S. businessmen that they do not expect any significant increase in U.S.-China trade until the political problems, notably Taiwan, are solved...
Died. György Lukács, 86, Communist theoretician; in Budapest. Though often called "the greatest Marxist since Karl Marx," the courtly ideologist still managed to offend both Lenin and Stalin. Lukacs eloquently criticized the rigidity of Soviet doctrine, then, while in exile in Moscow, was forced by Stalin to denounce his own early works. He survived periodic purges to join in the chorus of denunciation later directed against Stalin. A champion of such Communist heresies as pluralism and literary freedom, Lukács took part in the 1956 Hungarian uprising. He managed to avoid punishment and resumed...