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...handling of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Once Lowell, class of 1877 and president from 1909 to 1933, decided on a course of action, he opposed further discussion or hesitation. According to Eliot, president from 1869 to 1909, Lowell was “resolute,” even tactless, in pursuing what he believed to be the truth, yet “ingenious, though abrupt, in justifying those decisions.” In contrast, Eliot, who had held the chair at the meetings of all faculties, usually listened when they voiced their concerns and tolerated their digressions. Eliot observed...
...need to shut up. They constantly complain about their impending relocation to new subsidized facilities in a housing market they frankly cannot afford. The tenants don’t own the property and have no standing to whine about walking an extra block to the bus. Or anything really.7. Tactless law professors. Closely following the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz decided to pen a vicious piece calling the late Justice a “Republican thug” and accusing him of participating in bigoted acts like “heil-Hitlering?...
...sentence unfortunately follows his praise of Le Pen’s “wisdom.” No one has contributed more to the spread of racism in France than Jean-Marie Le Pen during his long political career. To describe Le Pen as a “tactless and sometimes foolish old man” would strike the majority of French citizens—of all possible heritages, backgrounds, faiths, and political tendencies—as, at the very least, a very bad joke...
...foreigners, and, more importantly, their proportion to the population as a whole, will increase dramatically over the next 20 to 30 years. Simply pretending this isn’t going to occur or that it will have no consequences does nothing to solve the problem.Le Pen is a tactless and sometimes foolish old man, if not the fascist monster he is made out to be, but he is right to note the serious problems associated with a “French” society and culture slowly but surely becoming something else. This doesn’t mean there aren?...
Will Ferrell. He’s goofy, he’s awkward and tactless, but very put together in the presidential sense. [New could be played by] Susan Sarandon. She’s almost pretty, but not quite, and kind of morose...