Word: boor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fogg Lecture Room--where "Darkness at Noon," Fine Arts 13, shows enough slides of masterpieces to get the most confirmed boor safely through the artiest cocktail party...
...describe The Contenders as "a novel of character," and there they are right. The narrator is a beer-pudgy reporter, a jovial, middle-aging man named Joe Shaw. His real name is Clarence, but he is "everybody's uncle" and therefore Joe. Self-described as "an uncouth provincial boor," he tells a tale of a pair of modern Dick Whittingtons who see London as "the pallid aviary of bank notes flapping their wings in time to the cunning chimes of Big Ben." The London-lured travelers are school friends who grew up together in a town where the pottery...
...well, you will enjoy it. If you join little cliques, you will be self-satisfied; if you make friends widely, you will be interesting. If you gossip, you will be slandered; if you mind your own business, you will be liked. If you act like a boor, you will be despised; if you act like a human being, you will be respected. If you spurn wisdom, wise people will spurn you; if you seek wisdom, they will seek you. If you adopt a pose of boredom, you will be a bore; if you show vitality, you will be alive...
...like this: "We'll come in and tell you what's wrong with your business for $100." Once in, May's "actioneers" get to work "opening the job," and sell the client-who falls into one of 49 types ("Penny Pincher, Stone Face, the Playboy, the Boor, the Weakling")-a long service which often costs thousands...
...must have been referring to the old-time machines which use block ice to cool their boor," Cronin added. "Our machines are refrigerated and are made of stainless steel...