Word: boorishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With regard to the black people, or vis a vis the history of manufacturing in America, or the collection of American antiques, or an interest in American art, one might feel a dillettante, or boorish. Listen to any knowledgeable person--especially a European--and he will tell you to study European painting, the fate of the Jews, Florentine curios, etc., if you would find your heritage...
...candidate's show all the way. He baited the demonstrators, he needled them, he laughed at them. They bawled even when he said innocuous things; they were willing butts for his jokes. They were crude and boorish, doing their little bit to make the candidate look good...
There is no mistaking Bulgakov's target in The Heart of a Dog: it is the boorish, overweening, ignorant, slogan-stuffed Soviet proletarian. Bulgakov wrote this short, scornful novel in 1925, drawing on his inexhaustible supply of contempt. Its method is the "fantastic realism" he was to use later in The Master and Margarita. Matter-of-fact becomes matter-of-fantasy; madly grotesque events are described in the language of naturalism...
...intellectual, another to cultivate siren calls of the flesh, still another to be an actress. In actuality, one girl-inspired by Miss Brodie to go help Franco's forces-dies in Spain when her train is bombed, while another humiliatingly ends up in the bed of a boorish art instructor who has an unrequited yen for Miss Brodie. Eventually, poor Miss Brodie is denounced to the headmistress by one of her cliquish girls, Amy Taubin, as a Fascist and dismissed-a melodramatic device so archaic as to seem almost piquant...
...unguarded display setup at Hilles prevented the showing of pop art paintings, which are much more valuable than drawings. Mrs. Shrout recalled that last year, some boorish Harvard student had picked up a sculpture of a machine, and to satisfy his curiosity had shaken...