Word: brat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents' sellout, hypocritical, establishment, plastic lives. At the risk of sounding like the Midwestern Methodist I am, every single action of Benjamin Braddock's is that of a spoiled rotten (albeit sensitive, self-deprecating, gentle, all the things you learn to value in a place like Harvard) brat. Not a brat in the old sense of the word, of course, not the overtly selfish sort who demands things and his own way, but the breed that seems to flourish particularly in the intellectual North-east and coastal West, the sort who quietly takes what his old man gives...
Middle-Income Munson's homemaker sounds like the brat-of-the-year! A presumably healthy 27-year-old woman who needs a mother's helper four mornings a week to care for only two babies; who can't make an average dress for under $25 and who needs a $45 dinner party once a week, is not a representative sample of any Illinois homemakers I know. My neighborhood had a healthy howl over that...
Anders is a service brat who was born in Hong Kong, while his father was there as a Navy commander. After graduating from Annapolis, he switched to the Air Force, won his master's degree in nuclear engineering and became a flying instructor. Until he was forced to abandon it because of his time-consuming space training, Anders owned a Cessna 172 and flew it every time he got a chance. Unusually conscientious, he once won a good-driver's award after an Albuquerque policeman saw him stop his car, remove a cinder block from a crowded highway...
...yesterday, as he will tomorrow. It is more difficult to know that he will be punished and ridiculed for behavior he cannot easily control. The next time I am told that I'm a nut, my doctor is a quack and my son is a brat who just needs a good belting instead of medication, I'll have you to back...
...CARABINIERS. When he is not behaving like a brat, Director Jean-Luc Godard can be quite grown up, as he once demonstrated with Breathless and now shows again with this dry, abrasive antiwar film that is at once a satire of post-war Europe and a subtle dissection of aggression...