Word: boorishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These stories range from a subtle clash between occupied and occupiers in Germany to a fine case history in boorish cruelty and prejudice in a New England factory town. In the 15 brief pages of A Modest Proposal Author Stafford can convey the look, the heat, the boredom, and the sharp antagonisms being played out at a Virgin Islands hotel peopled by divorcées. Like the rest of these tales of interior sickness, it is a sure antidote to complacency. Like most of them, it pokes at the heart, but never makes it miss a beat...
...hair is cut for a Jerry Lewis effect, crew-cropped on top, bangs in front. He has a sleepy face, and on the bandstand he keeps his watery-green eyes closed even when listening to Trumpeter Chet Baker, opens them only occasionally to glower at customers who are boorish enough to talk against the music...
...piety and fearlessness, that they are all cultured and very proper, acting more like their descendants than the hardy tinkers and tailors they were. For the producers of this movie were obviously concerned lest they shatter any primary school images. So they have handled the Pilgrims carefully. The only boorish character on Mayflower is the only non-Pilgrim, the captain (Spencer Tracy), who strides across his poop deck, cursing love and friendship in exaggerated tones, and carrying the whole burden of godlessness, until the others finally remake him into a good...
...fried slabs, flat, grey, served with a thick flour gravy," and sometimes topped by a couple of fried eggs. The Texans seemed to her as bad as their food, loud braggarts who had stolen Texas from the Mexicans and now treated them like peons. The men were big and boorish, the women loud, overdressed nitwits. When Jett Rink, the fabulous oil millionaire, gave a party, Leslie saw "Stetsons worn with black dinner coats . . . women in Mainbocher evening gowns escorted by men in shirt sleeves and boots." In the huge Reata house the library was bookless, the music room "mute...
While the storm rages outside, all is good fellowship within. Then the truck driver, boorish and a little drunk, insults one of the vaudeville girls, quarrels with Pomfret and quits the party. Later, when Martha and Pomfret drive off in the snowstorm, the truck driver is waiting for them beside the road, deliberately smashes into them from the rear and kills them...