Word: tasteless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best of all: "There was a time when intellectuals considered themselves to be the "salt of the earth...'" R.B.: 'For my part, I'd say that they are more like the refuse of society..." Even when faced with questions of the more tasteless kind, annoying to us precisely because we feel that we must remain, somehow, on the "side" of the interviewer, Barthes pirouettes and slips away, polished, elusive, unnameable...
...with grotesque illustrations of fetuses and slogans depicting Ferraro as a bad Catholic, while their so-called issues-oriented counterparts joined in choruses of "Ronald Reagan, he's no good, send him back to Hollywood" and waved signs imploring their cohorts to "Break Ronald Reagan's Arms" in a tasteless pun on his defense policy...
...closet of adolescent fears. Try vainly to see the UHS dermatogist for the second, out if Saturday night finds you alone and without the mental stamina to distinguish formulation two of Kant's categorical Imperative from formulation three, then see Bad Manners, a sometimes tacky, sometimes funny, sometimes tasteless, but nearly always funny flick...
...Thursday April 12, President Bok joined Fox's condemnation, releasing a statement "deploring the tone and content of the recent Pi Eta Speakers Club newsletter." Bok went on to comment that "tasteless and grossly insensitive references to groups of people have no place in this or any other civilized community," adding that the newsletter was "totally inconsistent" with the University's commitment to full respect for men and women...
...upcoming party as a stockyard slaughter with the women guests playing the livestock. And Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner this week issued her own condemnation of the newsletter. Fox wrote that "the letter makes a mockery of basic standards of civility, which the College takes seriously." Bok concurred that "tasteless and grossly insensitive references to groups of people (such as those made in the newsletter) have no place in this or any other civilized community." The swift administrative censure is reassuring and refreshing, but we hope that the University will also take further steps to attack the deeper problem...