Word: boorishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dropping a phlegm glob in her morning coffee, but J.D. has bigger plans. Soon this Heather is dead, though she does reappear in a dream to whine that "my afterlife is so boring! If I have to sing Kum Ba Yah one more time . . ." Then J.D. dispatches two boorish jocks who bugged Veronica. No loss, he shrugs: "Football season is over. Kurt and Ram had nothing to offer the school but date rape and AIDS jokes...
...features representatives from a variety of car manufacturers. When the fictional spokesman for Nissan--an Asian actor--stands up he blathers on in basically incomprehensible English. We are meant to see him not only as an enemy, but as a particular type of enemy. He is loud and boorish, all bug-eyes and buck teeth. It is a convenient way to deal with American fears, making Asians seem at once crude and oddly polite and subservient...
HARVARD maintains these positions and then wonders why minority and women students and faculty applications are down, and why there is such widespread discontent with the administration. Harvard is either too native to recognize or too boorish to acknowledge the blatant hypocrisy and fraud it is engaging in. Harvard is so powerful and rich that it raises serious questions of integrity when the University fails to act progressively--especially since the University need not worry about alumni support or public opinion as other schools must...
...then, except for a close-minded boorish conservative mentality, has Harvard not chosen to follow the course it has set for itself...
...hard to imagine what Glashow intended with such anecdotes. The humor is boorish, and the adventurous tales contribute little if anything to understanding the thought processes of a great physicist...