Word: tastelessness
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...public relations. Yet the actions do signify the demise of an admirable trait perhaps unique to Harvard: the confidence in the institution itself to allow unscreened public displays, and trust in the undergraduates to make them. Harvard's image is strong enough that one student group's tasteless jokes will not tarnish it. The percentage of students admitted who do opt to come to Harvard, each year about 75 percent, is always the highest in the nation, and the admissions office is hardly at the point where a frank discussion of the school's rough spots will turn away prospectives...
Berle is not universally admired. His detractors find his brassiness glaring and his talent often tasteless. They point out that television is still in its infancy and declare that Berle just happens to be the man who is taking candy from the baby...
...BLACK, a woman, two Jews, and a cripple. This time, Interior Secretary James G. Watt hit the jackpot. This tasteless description of the composition of a newly appointed coal-lease commission brought Watt closer to being ousted from the White House than ever before...
Some of the humor is unnecessary and tasteless, such as when Blacks in a St. Louis ghetto steal the station wagon's hubcaps while Chase asks for directions, or when the teenage daughter of some ridiculously hick relative brags that daddy says she is the best french kisser. These stereotypical characterizations--while occasionally funny in the racist, sexist world of the National Lampoon magazine--are completely gratuitous in a movie of this type...
...claim to represent the true and original "God-centered" American political creed--to be the Founding Fathers' real heirs. To thwart the appeal of the flag, then, liberals must prove the moral bankruptcy of the nation the flag stand for. This strategy inevitably dissolves a mixture of tasteless religion-baiting and crude anti-Americanism, as shown by the demonstrator's response of "racism" to Falwell's remark that "The Founding Fathers had only one thing in mind...