Word: roughshod
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...Brademas, majority whip in the House and chairman of the Select Education Subcommittee, was incensed when Califano pushed legislation for an HEW reorganization plan without consulting him first. He accused Califano of practicing "the same damn arrogance, the Nixon arrogance of power." Brademas now says: "I know he rides roughshod, but I think he is well motivated...
Basically, Castro gets caught in a hot-box between third base and home plate: It's difficult to ride Camus roughshod, and it's difficult to teach a course in French existentialism in three hours to theater-goers who probably came to escape that very thing. More importantly, it's absolutely impossible to do both and expect your play to make a lasting impression, especially when you're working with students. Castro was overly ambitious when he chose Caligula for members of the experimental ensemble...
...nice touches fail to illuminate the complex, confused philosophy of the young Albert Camus, and Vicente Castro in his last play at Harvard merely trips through it. There are interesting moments in this production, but riding Camus roughshod is, in the great Caligula tradition, artistic suicide...
...reason: he had come under attack for his association with the Gang of Four, the political radicals headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, who are still being reviled in the Chinese press because they reduced the national economy to "semianarchy" and "rode roughshod over the people, drank their blood and ate their flesh." Soon after the Gang of Four was arrested last year, Chuang, now 36, was kicked out of his job as Minister of Physical Culture and Sports. Reduced to sweeping Peking's streets and publicly denounced-one accusation was that...
...senior administrators, and the members of the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life, all participated in developing the housing policies and monitoring my work., Indeed, I am flattered in the knowledge that in the years I was in the Housing Office I was personally able to ride so roughshod (if your article is to be believed) over the policies developed by some of the finest minds in Harvard. In short, there are many other actors who deserve star billing in the housing story far more than I. If you are to evaluate what was done, and how it was done...