Word: tactlessness
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...delightful as it is tactless, the book sent many Canadians into gales of laughter, enraged others, who yanked copies from Toronto bookstore windows. The Toronto Star, refusing to review the book, commented: "Do you think our newspaper is printed on asbestos?" The Star's sports columnist suggested: "We could boil them in oil over a slow fire...
While Leon burned, Congress (those members who remained in Washington) fiddled. Most familiar tune was that of the Dies Committee. Ever since Henderson, in a particularly tactless moment, blurted that Martin Dies was "not a responsible member of Congress," the Dies Committee has been out to get him or his staff. Last week the committee had obtained a list of all his employes, 40 of whom (its agents contend) have written for Communist publications. These and other alleged links with Moscow will be fashioned into needles for some Congressmen to use against price controls...
Like Newman, Rauschning seems to have been wounded into writing by one of those tactless remarks, to which people who have changed sides are vulnerable and rawly sensitive ("Your question is meant kindly. But may I reply that it has hurt me more than unjust and malevolent judgments from opponents. . . .")-And like Newman's, Rauschning's apologia is no apology at all, but a careful and courageous examination of his course, revealing great probity, political acumen, intellectual equilibrium...
...trouble originated with Publisher Hearst, summering in northern California. He was getting madder & madder at Lyons. Lyons had made friendly mention no less than 41 times since Jan. 1 of Orson Welles, producer of the movie Citizen Kane, allegedly based on Hearst's strange career. That was tactless at least of Columnist Lyons...
...Herr Walter conducted the Met's only opera-in-English: Smetana's The Bartered Bride. This was no victory for the vernacular; it seemed tactless to sing it in German, as has been done in the past, and no one but the soprano, Jarmila Novotna, could sing in the opera's native Czech...