Word: boorishness
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Theresa leaves her Bronx home to attend City College, where she becomes entangled with a sadistic, egotistical, boorish college professor and willingly loses her virginity. The professor is the only man in Looking for Mr. Goodbar that Rossner is able to portray convincingly. No longer young, he is interested in reaffirming his youth buy seducing the female students in his classes--or, rather, enticing them to seduce him--while at the same time constantly condescending to them to maintain his power and stature in their eyes as well as in his own. To Theresa's perpetual fears of bodily imperfection...
...reaction from the press, Quinn has heard little from people at CBS. Aside from Hughes Rudd, her co-anchor on the show, to whom the book is dedicated, only Mike Wallace has called her. Quinn portrays him as a boorish sexist who sniped at her continually behind her back at CBS. "He said that he was sorry, that he hadn't realized I felt that way. I think he was stunned by my perception of him." Don Hewitt, a producer who went with Quinn to London as her director for the coverage of Princess Anne's wedding, and who Quinn...
...ability to nurture rather than Gerald's ability to organize. Lessing's first major character Martha Quest, whom she followed through a series of five novels (the Children of Violence series), had no such ability to love, and in her struggle to be independent abandoned her child to a boorish husband. Perhaps Lessing has mellowed now: perhaps Emily and the narrator are closer to Margaret, the earth mother figure of E.M. Forster's Howard's End, and, like her, can end with "Only connect...
...Bulgarian Petkoffs, on the other hand, display fierce and stupid loyalty, and despite their new money and active quest for culture, they have not managed to refine their boorish manners. (These unflattering references to the Bulgarian character, incidentally, prompted a riot by Bulgarian students when the play was put on in Vienna...
...Spanish hidalgo pretending not to understand Subtle when he tells him, "You are a scurvy whoreson dog," to which he replied. "Gracias, gracias." Tribulation (Walter Matherly) and Ananias (Sam Guckenheimer) are two whacked-out sectaries from the most extreme of the Protestant lunatic frings; Kastrll (Lee Silverman) is suitably boorish but sometimes so much so that you can't understand what he's saying. Dame Pliant (Andrea Stein) is a dumb blonde who turns out to be the prize for the rogue who out-cozens everyone, Lovewit (Will Englund), who returns from a vacation to appropriate everything Subtle...