Word: tactlessness
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...admit I was tactless," he added, apparently chastened after pointed questioning on April 14th at the Law School, where he addressed a course taught by Leonard B. Boudin, visiting professor of Law, a noted constitutional lawyer and Spock's attorney in the Boston conspiracy trial...
Shirley is kin to a long literary line of unworldly New World girls, starting with Daisy Miller, who have pitted their innocence against Old World ambiguities of Europe and pluckily gone under. In her own words, Shirley is "warm, generous, brave even." She is also sloppy, tactless, catty, softhearted, scatterbrained, a compulsive quoter out of context and snooper in her husband's desk drawers, gigantically absentminded, passably promiscuous, desperately lonely, guilt-ridden, polyglot, and sympathetically drawn to other people's troubles. She does the wrong thing every chance she gets, and St. Joseph (her code word for fate...
Bipartisan Uproar. Mitchell apparently believed that he had been more than reasonably patient. Nevertheless the announcement, and the tactless manner in which it was handled, caused a bipartisan uproar. Only a few hours after Morgenthau received the letter asking for his resignation, the Administration named Whitney North Seymour Jr., a capable New York lawyer and former assistant U.S. attorney, as his successor. The net effect may be to force Seymour to wait until Morgenthau quits or until his term expires...
What seems to be happening is that, more and more, the American black is reaching out for new and less violent tools to achieve his aims. This does not mean that a restless teen-ager with rock or rifle or a tactless and brutal policeman cannot still ignite a mob in any ghetto. But rioting is no longer the black community's instant, reflex response. Through a new alchemy of awareness, the word has passed on what Malcolm X called "the wire," the black grapevine: "Cool it." The internal sanctions of the ghetto now work against spontaneous combustion...
...meeting yesterday, a willingness to act on important issues behind the strike. It approved a resolution whose effect will be to abolish ROTC, and in so doing has properly transferred responsibility for this matter back to the Corporation. On the question of a black studies program, the astounding tactless decision to defer a vote on Afro's demands until next week should not obscure the Faculty's approval of the spirit of those demands. Tuesday's meeting is likely to approve the Afro position--unless classroom fracases have by then rendered the Faculty unwilling to consider anything...