Word: tactlessness
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...joke now (I call him the Manipulator and he calls me a Cold B****). It’s funny (kind of), but every once in a while, I’m still troubled by the lesson that I’m painfully swallowing. As I look back, being tactless always had a tradeoff, but the price I had to pay was always worth being able to say the things I wanted to say. But now, at least at work, I find that I can no longer afford the price of that strangely exhilarating freedom...
...would like to express my disapproval of the cartoon regarding the death of Pope John Paul II that was in the April 4 issue of The Crimson. As a Catholic myself, I found it disrespectful and tactless. All Catholics are currently in a period of mourning and trying to lighten the mood with a comic was not appropriate as the subject of a satirical comic. I highly encourage the staff to reconsider publishing comics along those lines in the future...
...Washington is a plate full of highly intelligent, artless, tactless, and harsh people,” says James S. Traub ’76, who wrote a 2003 cover story on Summers for the New York Times Magazine. “It is true that even there, diplomatic skills get you to the top. But it’s also a world of people who are really abrasive...
...already being met. I don’t know if he is or if he isn’t, but I do know that Summers’ recent remarks to a meeting of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) can only be held against him for their being tactless, and that they gave no indication that Summers is a sexist. To link the worthy causes for which the Coalition advocates into a smear campaign against Summers is misguided at best...
...senior faculty member said the remarks demonstrated what has been perceived as Summers’ tactless handling of administrative issues...