Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GENTEE1L CORNER of upper-class England in the 1920's the symptoms of ordinary Spring Fever erupt into a full blown case of Hayfever, Noel Coward's comic nightmare of what happens when English society goes native for the weekend. It might be called a comedy of manners. Bad manners...
...turn Thursday's events into yet another debate on the Constitution and freedom of speech. Freedom of speech concerns are involved here--to some extent. But it is equally important for all members of this community to operate in a way that does not increase tensions and encourage bad feeling. The Conservative Club, even though it has a Constitutional right to invite whomever it wishes, did not operate in good faith...
...film, DeWayne is dead, with an empty Coke can resting on his coffin. One does not question the truth of that shot, only the sensibility that permits it to survive the final cut. Streetwise keeps demonstrating the cliche that life too often resembles a bad movie. But there is more to be said here, and a less polished film might have encouraged a more complex response--which should surely include anger...
...White House last week and said, "There is a greater stridency than I remember. We are in a troubled period." The late Vice President Hubert Humphrey, himself battered by a wave of national protest, foresaw the problem years ago. "The first sign of a declining civilization," he fretted, "is bad manners...
...together only for organizational reasons, including continued efforts to trace some 150,000 SS troopers missing since World War II. SS veterans' associations have been finding it more and more difficult to meet of late. Last year the 1st Armored Corps Association had to call off a reunion in Bad Harzburg when demonstrations erupted and a local court banned the meeting. Veterans of the 3rd SS Armored Division did gather in the village of Oberaula in the Hessian hills, but so did 5,000 anti- Nazi demonstrators and 700 helmeted police. The welcome in Nesselwang is not expected...