Word: affront
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time-odd TV series lured millions of addicted viewers to its season finale. ABC announced that the show would return in the fall. And to complete the hat trick, Lynch copped the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for Wild at Heart, the writer-director's latest affront to the cinematic status quo. Flanked by his radiant companion Isabella Rossellini, awash in the cheers and scattered outraged hoots that will forever follow his film, Lynch smiled innocently and declared, "It's a true dream come true...
However, I find Kenneth Katz's editorial piece on his "love" for crew (March 17,1990) not only an affront to committed students in general, but yet another monologue that unfortunately reinforces the stereotypes that previl concerning athletes in general, and rowers in particular...
...injunction about "facts and the dreary methods required to determine them." Taking advantage of the vulnerability of graduate students to the views of senior faculty in their field, it seeks to intimidate those who might want to teach in another concentration with real intellectual value. This is an affront to the longstanding commitment of the University itself to academic freedom, community and liberal education...
...from Harvard the community is, in the words of Lawrence Duncan III '90, "coming together in an arena of racial tolerance and understanding." Such an atmosphere is essential to the mission of an institution such as Harvard above all else, and Jon P. Jiles' Confederate flag was an obvious affront to such harmony...
...monolithic communist menace. Yet once it happened, the whole spectacle had a look of something like inevitability. The governments of Eastern Europe had never been more than hollow administrations installed and maintained by Moscow's armed forces. They were rejected as Marxist, but even more as Russian, a double affront to the proud nationalism of countries that believed the West ended at Poland's eastern frontier. Once it became clear that Gorbachev meant what he said, the opposition -- tightly organized as in Poland or inchoate as in East Germany and Czechoslovakia -- rose up in wrath. Without the backing...