Word: offending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money for recruitment of and scholarships for black students at Harvard. "There are too many Southerners in the class-many whom donated generously-for us to give the money to Negroes or the underprivileged or people from the ghetto or things like that," Storer said. "It would offend them. And if we had a vote of the class, many of those voting would be those who didn't give any money...
They were removed from Ticknor lounge before being exhibited because in the words of one official, "It is the desire of the Library to offend...
...have found some normally closemouthed Nixon assistants not only available but downright candid about their jobs. These are only straws in the wind, but Nixon is obviously sensitive about the charge of isolation. One adviser criticized Nixon's welcome to New York City's construction workers because it would offend students sympathetic to antiwar demonstrators attacked by the hardhats. But Nixon jumped on a Wall Street businessman who made the same point at a White House dinner last week?a dinner that itself was a gesture toward the nation's suffering investors...
...this kind of decision is utterly repugnant to the liberal and international spirit in which the Ticknor Library was planned. You quote Mr. B. A. Humphrey, who cannot speak for any of the departments housed in the building, as stating that "It is the desire of the Center to offend nobody." Personally I find this statement highly offensive, insofar as its bland philistinism reveals a total ignorance of the nature...
...fact, Mrs. Romm seems to view her anthology as a test of the fragile open-mindedness of silent majoritarians who are dangerously close to slipping from misunderstanding into repression. In her preface, she tells her readers that much of her salacious "actual raw material" will offend them and asks them to be tolerant...