Word: boorishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been the G.I.'s; the most evident contribution of their culture to Europe seemed to be coca-cola, jeeps, and the Hollywood movie. They were met with the expectation that they turn out to be a combination of Babbitt and the Lone Ranger, bulging with money and utterly boorish. They discovered that the humble dollars in their wallets represented the solidest value in the world, the item which seemed to be the chief reason for Europe's respect for the U. S. They found themselves the target for postcard salesmen, black marketeers, hotel keepers, and souvenir hawkers...
...noisy and unbelievable performance had run longer than most Broadway plays. But last week, after eight months of boorish judge-baiting, earsplitting objections, and windy Marxist double talk, the eleven top Communist leaders charged with conspiring to advocate violent overthrow of the Government finally ended their defense testimony. Weary court attachés guessed that the case would go to the jury within the next three weeks...
...boorish and heartless exhibitions of snobbery, Captain Donald F. Smith's conduct in connection with "Miss Quonset Point" [TIME, May 2] ranks among the more nauseous of modern times. Courtesy to a "sweep-woman" could not possibly have besmirched his dignity as his act has besmirched the Navy...
...asserts, is not the age of the Common Man, but "the Century of the uneducated Common Man, of the Common Man unskilled in the art of living. Untaught in the wisdom of the race, he is competent neither to rule nor to be ruled ... blatantly vulgar, ill-mannered, boorish . . ." Instead of educating the Common Man to take his newly acquired place of leadership, U.S. schools and colleges have slung him a "mess of servile pottage." Merely to offer more & more of such education to more people, says Bell, solves nothing. The only hope for U.S. civilization as Bell sees...
...that they would far sooner play with those nice boys from Cleveland or New York with the 70,000 seating capacities. But the Red Sex rebuttal expressing deep sorrow that Jeff Heath had broken only his leg when it might so easily have been his neck bordered on the boorish...