Word: boorishness
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...your letters to the editor concerning the Administration's actions in Viet Nam [May 21] are any indication of predominant current feeling toward intellectuals, your statement in the Essay seems to be contradictory. If "anti-eggheadry is at a new low," why are university students referred to as "boorish malcontents," professors accused of having "tortured and specious reasoning," and why is it suggested that "more of our officials take McBundy's example and slap a few of these intellectuals down...
...errors of military involvement as a justification for mass protest. No one is about to deny these students their rights. They can wallow in their own naivete as long as they want. But mere disagreement and nonconformism cannot by any means explain the uncontrolled vehemence with which these boorish malcontents voice their objections...
...time Chou finished his long goodbye and flew home to Peking, a Sino-Soviet dialogue had been established for the first time in 16 months. The olive branch had been offered to all warring parties in the Communist movement, and the acute embarrassment brought about by Khrushchev's boorish intransigence had been transmuted into a glow of wary hope. How healing this might be for Communist prestige with the "nonaligned" was illustrated by the report that Algeria...
...variety of accents. The leading man, Spalding Gray, who plays Mirabell, is particularly poor. He has either been miscast, or misdirected. Supposedly the most attractive man in London, a wit and a charmer, he talks like a self-satisfied New England prep school master. Next to him the supposedly boorish Sir Wilfull Witwoud (John Peaks) is a gallant gentleman...
...Norwegians had had enough of Nikita Khrushchev even before he arrived. Television had shown the Russian Premier touring Sweden and Denmark, had reported his boorish belittling of Danish farming and his sneering remarks on Swedish defenses. When he clambered onto the quay in Oslo, a ragged cheer broke out from assembled Iron Curtain diplomats-but not from the 3,000 curious Norwegians who had gathered to examine the visitor. One little old lady was moved to waggle her umbrella at Khrushchev and shout "Murderer" until a manners-minded policeman placed his white-gloved hand firmly over her mouth...