Word: insulted
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...sooner had the American people again asserted their shrewd political sophistication at the polls [Nov. 16] than the forces of party politics, still unconvinced, sought to deceive and insult the very voters who had, over the past months, been forced to sift through the reckless rhetoric and shallow nonissues of one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history to find even the faintest trace of substance and meaning...
Would they? Would Harvard students be taken in by a grinning hypocrite who came glad-handing his way down to Lowell House to pacify the natives whenever they got restless? Some of Brewster's stunts seem so obvious as to insult the intelligence even of Yale. A year ago, for example, Brewster spoke in front of the Yale Political Union, an apolitical student forum, and gained national publicity for his proposal that any Yale president's term be "reviewed" by the Yale Corporation every seven year. Whatever that meant-since no president has tenure and can be fired...
...Observes TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey: "Never has the American voter so totally thumbed his nose at outside interference, money, buncombe, hate and the lofty lamentations of the pious. Particularly in the last ten days, Nixon's campaign was an appeal to narrowness and selfishness and an insult to the American intelligence. He diminished the presidency...
...been buying his records and believing in them for years; he does not belong to his fans, after all, and if he wanted to have a Princeton diploma to hang on his wall, no one had any right to feel betrayed. In contrast, issuing "Self Portrait" was a direct insult...
Meanwhile, the preliminary performer was getting shit from the eager Bobby Sherman audience. He was singing folk songs, and the fans didn't go for it. There were persistent chants of "We want Bobby!" Imgine the insult. Here you are playing second to Bobby Sherman and you're getting shouted down. Shouted down in a Dorchester accent even. It came time for him to go, and he said a deathly cold "Goodnight" and disappeared. The fans cheered wildly...