Word: boorishness
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...brilliantly 35 years ago. Alter's hero feels a similar sense of class and cultural instability as those Orwell less charitably referred to as half-breeds. At the start of the book he seduces a young Hindu woman, is caught and beaten to a mild pulp by her rather boorish brothers, and banished by his embarrassed family to the hinterlands. At this point the book begins to pick up in quality while maintaining its rather laconic tempo...
...Prominently display great books, prefeably dog-eared copies. Once you have unpacked, sit around and calmly wait for your new roommate(s). When he/she arrives, be friendly, by careful to assert your superiority. Trade SAT scores. Actually, this is a fairly grotesque practice, and it is regarded as boorish, but among roommates, all is fair. Brag about your exploits, academic, athletic, or sexual, depending on what will work best. If you didn't get the single, make sure you get your roommate to agree to switch at some equitable point. Afterwards, go to a bank and open a checking account...
...long as one cares to remember, journalism and sociology have been the novel's boorish guests, wolfing down plots, ideologies and still smoking events in the name of fiction, although not necessarily in its spirit. Yet the novel tolerates nearly everything except a lack of persuasive characters...
...turned out to rally for Hitler. Loren and her most durable costar, Marcello Mastroianni, play the only tenants of a cavernous apartment building who remain at home during the festivities. Antonietta, an ignorant working-class housewife, has stayed behind to clean up the cramped flat she shares with her boorish husband and six kids. Gabriele, a bachelor who is an out-of-work radio announcer and antiFascist, has shut himself in to contemplate his certain confinement by il Duce's henchmen...
...story, which is based on a historical incident, turns on a double irony. Giannini is driven not by evil but by a warped nobility. In plotting the murder of Deneuve's cruel and boorish husband, he enmeshes his idealistic, freethinking family in an elaborate, tawdry scandal In turn, the forces of Catholic conservatism in Bologna, especially the police and press, are impelled by hysterical fear and hatred of socialism to pillory the entire family. As the old scientist (Fernando Key) muses bitterly: "A man who kills an other man commits a reprehensible act. But a society that kills...