Word: boorishness
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American prejudices against the "Bally English" in conflict with English misconceptions of "boorish Americans" furnish the central Tenma. With a strange mixture of sympathetic concern and amusement the author views those absurd ideas that Americans have of England and the equally warped opinions that the English hold of America and its "natives". It is the old idea of the folly of prejudices. Perhaps this is why the author employs a conventional plot and technique and stock characters...
...country, and has advised the new writers to cast their eyes backward at the glorious work which was being produced half a century ago. The public cries for bread, he declares, and in return England's young modernists are giving them literary stones. Prose, writers turn out drab, boorish novels, and pseudo poets concoct yards and yards of verse, written "with one eye on Mammon and the other on the Charwoman's Elastic sided Boots". All that remains of a splendid past is an attenuated Hardy in the flesh, and faint memories of Francis Thompson and Swinburne...
...considered equal to his neighbor, there was no discounting an insult because of the stupidity or lack of breeding in the man responsible for it. An earlier and more polished society which recognized the duelling code distinguished between affronts coming from a "gentleman", and those arising from a boorish and Lefthanded mentality...
...concerns itself with the wastrel son of a rich and rather bourgeois family, who marries an actress in defiance of his parents' social ambitions for him, and then, calling to his aid the spirit of love, sweetness and light, makes them approve of her and repent their boorish behavior toward her. The music written by Sissle and Blake, authors of the Negro jazz revue Shuffle Along, and Carlo and Sanders, composers of the musical hit Tangerine, shows what Broadway composers of established ability can do when they don't try very hard, and the book, by Charles Bell, explains...
...procedure which deserves the unmitigated condemnation of all fair minded men; and apologies under such circumstances are weak beyond measure. Let us take this lesson to heart and conduct ourselves here at home so that the stranger within our gates may not be led to misjudge us by such boorish actions...