Word: snideness
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...article by Andrew Ferguson on school programs that teach moral values to students [EDUCATION, May 24] was predictably snide, fashionably cynical and, in at least one instance, inaccurate. Contrary to the implication in the piece, I have not just discovered "the elixir of schoolroom values." My interest in the Character Counts movement and character education in America's schools didn't start with the Littleton, Colo., murders. I've been involved in the program for six years at the state and federal levels. The impetus for character education comes from the parents. It is the second most important thing that...
...years ago, the mischievous British media tried to fan the flames of a feud between Indian authors Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth by reporting that Rushdie had dismissed Seth's epic 1993 best seller, A Suitable Boy, as nothing but a "soap opera." Seth denied that Rushdie had been snide, but it is a measure of Seth's extraordinary skill and versatility--his first novel, The Golden Gate, was a tale of San Francisco written entirely in elegant verse; A Suitable Boy was the opposite, a marvelous, sprawling, and gripping tale of Indian family life--that one wonders...
...park. The tabloids try to eat you alive every day. Much worse, they go after your family. The media and Hillary's Republican opponent would surely attack her as a carpetbagger, revisit her commodities investments and Whitewater representation, distort her views on a Palestinian state and serve up snide analyses of her marriage. But I think she can successfully rebut them all. We have elected two men from out of state--a Connecticut Republican, James Buckley, and a Massachusetts Democrat, Bobby Kennedy--to represent us in the Senate. Hillary has spent more time in New York over the past seven...
...future politician trying to balance out the two factions in her party: those who believe in everything--gray aliens, the Gnomes of Zurich and every other conspiracy theory that slithers across the Net--and those who believe in absolutely nothing unless you can tie it in to a snide quip about The Brady Bunch. Maybe Abbie Hoffman saw this coming and just didn't want to have to think about...
Although often she can be quite snide...