Word: boorishness
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Critic John Ciardi's boorish assault on Anne Lindbergh's verse [Feb. 18] sounds suspiciously like the hysterical protest of one who fears that readers may be lured away from the jabberwocky school of modern verse, of which he considers himself the grand high panjandrum...
...self-effacing, his air transport borne aloft on a roseate cloud of good will, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai last week dropped in to New Delhi to pay a call on Jawaharlal Nehru. As blandly charming and tactful as Khrushchev and Bulganin had been blunt and boorish just a year ago, Chou seemed determined to win a smile from Nehru, who was just a mite disillusioned about his Russian friends. As he stepped from his plane, Chou cheerfully endured the perils of a blizzard of tossed rose petals and the weight of garlands of marigolds flung about...
...domain of 596,000 acres, is the setting of some huge social affairs--mostly weddings and funerals--and a number of magnificent fights, all staged by director George Stevens with an eye for grand effects. The aura of grandeur surrounds even the villain of the piece, a rather boorish ranch-hand who finds oil on a little piece of land which the boss' sister leaves him, goes on to cover the rest of the state with oil wells...
...anything, honey?" She also marked the beginning of her social awakenings by defining "peninsula" as "that new medicine." As Harry Brock, the bullying baron, of junk who tries to buy the U.S. Senate, Paul Douglas was again, as he was for 1,642 performances on Broadway, superbly irascible and boorish...
...Waugh-begone women, Bijou Ardglass and Baby Wentworth, who hunt their gross and boorish businessmen prey. One of the girls ends up in a bad marriage to an Italian. ("His profession?" "I don't think I know you well enough to tell...