Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television last week that he was turning the April 27 referendum into a vote of confidence caught most French citizens by surprise. For one thing, the issues hardly seemed important enough for De Gaulle to stake his career on them. For another, interest in the referendum has been so slight that the outcome is by no means certain. A poll taken a few days before his speech indicated that 52% of the electorate planned either not to cast ballots at all or were undecided how they would vote.Of the remaining 48%, the sampling was almost evenly divided between...
...roughly a decade, the works of a slight, wiry, North Carolina-born painter named Kenneth Noland, 45, have been vehemently praised and just as savagely dissected in art magazines, while remaining relatively unappreciated by the general museum going public. The reason is that Noland's paintings, from the time he first began to attract attention with his "target" canvases of 1957, have remained icily symmetrical, uncompromisingly abstract, and thus seemingly impersonal. The debate has raged over whether (as his foes charged) they are merely decorative, or whether (as his friends claimed) they are simply so difficult that most people...
While the students in other Graduate Schools have mass meetings to discuss the takeover and the police bust, there have been no such meetings at the Business School. Informal polls at the Business School show in fact a slight majority of support for President Pusey's decision to call in police. This means that many Business School students are taking a harder line than the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Mainstream. Vonnegut does admit, though, to a slight pique at being pejoratively classified as a science-fiction writer. "I'm in the mainstream." he says flatly, and with justice. "Besides, there's no sense in creating a literary ghetto. The implication is it would be serious to write about Portnoy's complaints but frivolous to write about machinery. I just describe characters in terms of the jobs they do, rather than their sexual hang...
...that the administration called the police, they gave us the chance to have a taste of what outside society (might we call it the "real world"?) is like; we had a slight exposure to the suffering that black men, or coal miners, or striking factory workers, or draftees face every day. Rather than condemn the University administration, I think we should actually be grateful to them for giving us perhaps the most valid educational experience we could have had during all our years here. Barbara Brandt Research assistant, Graduate School of Design