Word: tactlessness
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Columbia has a history of tactless expansionism and insularity in its dealings with the Morningside Heights community which surrounds it. A majority of the Faculty have voted that the immediate target of the protestors' anger, a gym under construction in Morningside Park, should not be built--at least until community leaders are given a chance to confer on an alternate site. The temporary halt in construction may well become permanent...
Most students are not content with the present hours; they have been saying so; and they'll continue to say so until the hours are extended. The committee on Houses should reconsider its needlessly tactless refusal to review the present setup, and should follow the HUC's proposal for midnight hours...
...pointedly avoided any commitment to the proposal, insisting that he would save his specific recommendations until December, when the President's Commission on the Draft will release its report. "It would be tactless of me to comment before they report," he explained...
Principal problem: how to get rid of Ky's tough but tactless security chief, Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 35, who last month offended the Southerners by nabbing one of their number, and seldom bothers to conceal his contempt for the Southern group as a whole-or any other critics of Ky. Loan, like Ky, is a Northerner who went south after the 1954 partition. The two were fellow pilots in the Vietnamese air force, and when Ky took power last year, he promptly asked Loan to be his director of national security...
...table was tactless enough to suggest that le général had scored another tactical victory. Instead, the story was that De Gaulle had made a "concession" to Erhard by telling him that West Germany did have a right to request France to withdraw its troops, since France had clearly abrogated the 1954 NATO agreement that allowed them to stay in the first place. Erhard replied to this face-saving gesture by informing De Gaulle that West Germany would be delighted to have the French troops remain, and he "hoped and expected" that some sort of agreement would...