Word: affronts
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...their do-gooding, they did not pay Deadwood's 1% sales tax. Thomas Blair, an anesthetist who helped form a committee to support the anti-whorehouse drive, quotes reports that some of the houses made at least $5,000 a week. Their winked-at illegality was an affront to law-abiding citizens, he says, adding: "I'm not going to legislate my morality on someone else, but I don't want anyone legislating their immorality...
...Rokuro Tomibe, the camp commander and an extraordinarily decent man, dressed down his staff for not being courteous enough to prisoners. In turn, Tomibe sulked because some Americans used the term Jap. A few inmates tried to convince him that it was an innocent abbreviation, but he recognized the affront...
...BOSTON high school principal said last week of the state's new school prayer law, "No one has given it much thought." That's self-evident about everything concerning the new law, from its obvious affront to constitutional principles to the ill-defined details of its implementation...
...about diarrhea," says the earnest pitchman. T shirts, sweatshirts and bumper stickers proclaim their aggressive little editorials. Some are mildly funny (a woman's T shirt, for example, that says so MANY MEN, so LITTLE TIME). But often they are crude with a faintly alarming determination to affront, even sometimes to menace. They are filled with belligerent scatology. Something or other always SUCKS...
...depressing quality of much American public behavior-from Connors to T shirts-is its edgy meanness. Bad enough that it is calculatedly cheap. Worse is the stolid nastiness of it, the rock in the snowball, the compulsion to affront. Even re lentless candor - wounding friends or family by telling them their defects in the name of honesty-is a symptom not only of stupidity but also of unkindness and buried anger...