Word: boorishness
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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...
...that kind of paycheck, many of the women who work at this and other auto plants are willing to shoulder some boorish behavior in addition to the tough, sometimes monotonous job on the line. Others are not. As early as 1992, female employees at Mitsubishi began to complain of sexual misbehavior on the factory floor. They reported obscene, crude sketches of genital organs and sex acts, and names of female workers scratched into unpainted car bodies moving along the assembly line. Women were called sluts, whores and bitches and subjected to groping, forced sex play and male flashing. Explicit sexual...
...about over; most of the clan has moved on to Hyannis. When the big storm blows substandard roofs off half of Dade County's ranchettes, Edie and her business partner branch out into insurance fraud. Soon the lizards are frisking: sleazy developers, mendacious salesmen, crooked building inspectors, clueless and boorish tourists. These sorry folk are what is called the fabric of society. Hiaasen's good guys are far out on the fabric's fringe: a decent chap who collects human skulls, and a huge, one-eyed wild man who lives in the swamps and eats roadkill. That this gent...
...junior who lives in a substance-free dorm at Boston College. "So people say, 'I'd better be lubricated before I go out."' When writer Christopher Buckley gave the keynote address at the annual evening banquet of the Yale Daily News last month, he was so outraged by the boorish behavior of audience members, many of whom had been drinking since the afternoon, that he castigated them in a New York Times Op Ed piece...