Word: snideness
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MANCHESTER even mishandles some of his own ill-conceived notions about the assassination. The manuscript is peppered, for example, with snide, venemous, often fantastic references to both the city of Dallas and the person of Lee Harvey Oswald. Dallas, Manchester argues, epitomizes all the noisome features of American life which buttress lawlessness and unreasoning violence. Because the city was Oswald's home base, Manchester constantly seems to imply that Dallas supported and encouraged Oswald's instability and volatility--that the wickedness of the city had something to do with the wickedness of the individual. But the argument is never made...
...concerned with the snide way Mr. Glassman goes on to report the confession of college offenses which "Tom Galleway" made to a group of Harvard freshmen. But who exactly is this "Tom Galleway" who, we are made to feel, has fabricated a Harvard background? The answer lay easily at hand for Mr. Glassman...
...other cases, economic, social and legal problems combine to form a "poverty syndrome." One student assistant arranged for the probation under his supervision of two parents accused of child neglect, helped them to arrange their debt problems, and subsequently to obtain hospital care. "Most of us no longer make snide cocktail party comments about welfare mothers; we have some insight into their problems," one staff member comments...
When asked whether he thought it would be possible to screen out vulnerable people who looked as if they might be hurt by a snide remark from a peer, Robert F. Bales, professor of Social Relations, said that it would be technically too costly and time consuming to give each of the students a psychological test to ascertain if they were too fragile to participate. No one has ever been seriously damaged emotionally by the course, Bales added...
...introduced herself, said: "I have two, and if you can't find one I'll be glad to send you one of mine." And, though the colonel has promised to stick to the issues, she is woman enough to admit that she cannot promise not to be "snide from time to time...