Word: tastelessness
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Author Richard Bach may be surprised to learn that his inspirational flight manual, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, has run into flak from a Red Guard group in Fukien province. Noting the popularity of the "tasteless and absurd" book in Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan, the group, via "Fukien Front" radio, has attacked what it calls "the Chiang gang's insidious motive in advocating the seagull character." The motive: to persuade intellectuals to oppose Communism. "Prominent personages in the Chiang gang," noted the young Red Guards, "have even openly called on the people to act like this particular seagull, pursue...
...with members of the Cambridge bridge Union Debating Society watching and baiting the two contenders: William F. Buckley and Germaine Greer. Buckley finds himself very much at home with the predominantly snotty, upper class, chauvinist audience, and scores minor points in his remarks by way of snide and generally tasteless humor. Ms. Greer appears tight-lipped and fumbling at the outset, only the kid-gloved technique for an all-out attack which represents the finese impromptu defense of a worthy, cause I have ever seen. It is to the credit of the stodgy debaters that they eventually see the light...
...both appear to be enjoying themselves thoroughly. Sweeping onto the stage like a cold draught of air, Mary Ennis as Gwendolyn's imposing mother rivals her daughter's haughty demeanor. The actors taking the smaller parts, who vary in quality, all face the uninspiring task of being tasteless foils to the spicier coterie of leading characters...
Although it was "rather tasteless," at least before adding salad dressing and crunchy granola, the sophomore--who asked not to be identified--said it was not the first he had eaten in public this year...
...distinctive mode of broadcasting. The shows evidence a lot of talent and the garbage (even in Julia Child's kitchen) is kept to a minimum. But good things only last so long. Someone was bound to find the airwaves tasteless, and the Nixon Administration did just that...