Word: boorishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening scene of the ART's latest production, a boorish captain implores his barber-orderly, Johann Christian Woyzeck, to slow down while shaving him: "Not so fast, one thing after another. You're making me quite dizzy." The orderly, a fidgety and anxious troll of a man, paces back and forth in the spotlight, etching out the confines of the circle. Surrounded by darkness, he nervously darts to his washbowl and glances out into the audience with a fearful and ominous visage. Woyzeck cannot and will not slow down...
...Records, delivers the goods. The 7 Day Theory boasts complex production and some great tunes but is overwhelmed by exhausted gangsta imagery. As for Tha Doggfather, some of the songs have a narcotic seductiveness, and Snoop slips in a few positive messages. But much of the album is boorish and boring...
Baker is not the working class hero, "standing tall...against the culture of absurd complaints," as Barnicle believes. Baker is a boorish, disrespectful self-stigmatized pseudo-intellectual who attempted to defend his unprofessional actions by citing Plato instead of heeding his employer's request for a formal apology. At the very least, he could have said: "Look, I graduated from Harvard in 1976, but I'm stuck in a dead-end job. Can't you understand why I'm grouchy...
With such a multimotivated triad producing a wealth of wonders, it is no surprise that medicine's great advance has been at once high-minded and profit-minded, selfless and selfish, inspired and pragmatic, sublime and boorish. With its emphasis on technology, the juggernaut of medical science has often strained and frayed the traditional personal bond between doctor and patient. It has presented medicine with a tangle of ethical dilemmas, bringing moral implications ever closer to daily life--and death. And, if that were not enough, it confronts society and government with the urgent problem of just...
...have the boorish manners of a Yalie," says the indignant writer...