Word: boorishness
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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...
...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...
...year is 1866, and an English governess consigned to doleful duty in a remote Australian backwater has her thoughts interrupted by a preposterous vision: "She was running through her list of unsatisfactory or irritating or boorish suitors when she saw a church made from glass towed into her field of vision by two men in wide straw hats." This is no hallucination. The crystalline minicathedral that floats into view, with a framework of iron, measures 50 ft. in length and 22 ft. 6 in. across. It weighs twelve tons...
...junior transfer Bill Wheeler, who scored 33 of the quietest points in memory. Jasper center Pete Runge was awarded 23 points by the official scorer for winning the Billy Paultz play-alike contest. (For those who don't remember, Paultz is the former NBA player whose boorish and unimaginative play earned him the nickname "The Whopper...
...fact, boorish and unimaginative is a pretty good description of the game at hand. Referees Bob Madigan and Don Winterton (or, as they were introduced Saturday night, "Mr. Bob Madigan and Mr. Don Winterton") spent the game blowing their whistles at seemingly random intervals, calling a whopping 50 fouls overall. Five of the eight Harvard players who saw action ended with four fouls...