Word: boorishness
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...intellectual, another to cultivate siren calls of the flesh, still another to be an actress. In actuality, one girl-inspired by Miss Brodie to go help Franco's forces-dies in Spain when her train is bombed, while another humiliatingly ends up in the bed of a boorish art instructor who has an unrequited yen for Miss Brodie. Eventually, poor Miss Brodie is denounced to the headmistress by one of her cliquish girls, Amy Taubin, as a Fascist and dismissed-a melodramatic device so archaic as to seem almost piquant...
...unguarded display setup at Hilles prevented the showing of pop art paintings, which are much more valuable than drawings. Mrs. Shrout recalled that last year, some boorish Harvard student had picked up a sculpture of a machine, and to satisfy his curiosity had shaken...
...present regime overthrew Khrushchev not only because it found many of his actions boorish and his policies impetuous, but also because he had a way of forcing his will on the Politburo and the Central Committee...
...Adams House production of The Apple Cart has been billed as the performance of a Shavian prophecy, uttered in 1929 and vindicated in 1967. They must be joking. Kings certainly haven't staged a comeback, and Shaw's references to colonial revolts, Atlantic alliances, and boorish American Presidents just don't qualify him as a oracle...
...quickly," Mailer writes, and almost everything about the man disproves the Establishment's caricature of him as a fire-breathing, bad-mouthing ogre, whose only literary impulse is to fuel his own ego. Mailer is kind to children, careful to remember acquaintances' names, and polite even to the boorish fan who traps him after a reading with a five-minute, existential question...