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...KPFK paid only five of its twelve employees last week. Still, Pacifica officials believe their stations will be able to continue assaulting the airwaves. After considering dozens of listener complaints, the FCC recently upheld Manhattan's WBAI. "The opinions and views of others may startle, shock and even offend," said the FCC. "But the drafters of the Constitution believed that no man has a monopoly on truth...
...opera buffa nicknames that newspaper rewrite men use to lend a tint of life to their gangster stories. Secondly, Puzo's Corleone family has manly standards. Gambling, labor extortion, an occasional unavoidable murder and some judicious bribery are all in order. But no prostitution or drugs. These enterprises offend the strait-laced sensibility of the Godfather, Don Vito Corleone...
...with Negro regular Scoey Mitchell by announcing: "Scoey and I felt that tonight we would like to take a step toward breaking down the barriers between the races." "We realize," continued Scoey, "that if a white man were to kiss a black girl, that would offend many people." Tommy pointed out that "on the other hand, if a black man were to kiss a white girl, that, too, would offend many people. So we would like to take the only logical step we could take where nobody would be offended." The two men then turned to ward each other with...
...mood to gratify this intellectual need. Similarly, the juvenile ape, observing grownup behavior, mimes it in his games. For this pleasurable educational system, modern man has substituted the discipline of the classroom and the material rewards of grades, both of which, in Washburn's view, offend man's basic biological nature...
...Ohio senate, then the U.S. Senate, borne on waves of alliteration: "Progress is not proclamation nor palaver," he orated when delivering the nominating speech for Taft in 1912. "It is not pretence nor play on prejudice." He based his own progress on one cardinal rule: Don't "offend anybody." Half awesomely, he was described as "the greatest exponent of standpatism the state ever...