Word: brutish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prizzi family is not boroughs but planets distant from Mario Puzo's Corleones. These soldiers have no dignity and not a shred of redeeming decency. Don Corrado, with his "small, sharp eyes, as merry as ice cubes," is driven like all his men by pure avarice and a brutish lust for power. Prizzi and his top aides-loosely modeled on the late Carlo Gambino and his Mob-have never even "been beyond Brooklyn or Vegas"; they do not read newspapers or go to college. Yet, as Charley proudly observes, the Prizzi family "runs this country just the same...
...base of Hugh Stubbins Jr.'s 59-story Citicorp Center. Although it is not, strictly speaking, part of the Citicorp skyscraper, it too was designed by Stubbins and fits masterfully into his overall architectural vision. Stubbins' church holds its own at the foot of the somewhat brutish 915-ft. Citicorp tower. The church's uncluttered, skylit interiors were created by Vignelli Associates using natural colors and materials. Sculptor Louise Nevelson designed the church's small but exquisite Erol Beker Chapel of the Good Shepherd. St. Peter's is indeed a sanctuary in a cold...
...himself in, many say, by squaring off with Ronald Reagan one week before the general election. The lasting impressions of that session were that Reagan was kind and gentle, concerned whether the voters were "better off now than you were four years ago," while Carter was nasty and brutish...
...closing in on you, and your roommates are grouchier and more selfish than you can deal with The people and conversations in the dining hall are depressingly redundant and you fell your muscles atrophying from the long hours spent indoors during reading period and Cambridge's nasty and brutish weather. In short, you have lost sight of Harvard's renowned mystique and you need desperately to get away from everything and everyone before you join the Moonies or take a semester's leave of absence...
Hers, howver, is not a political conservatism of B-1 bombers and trickle-down theories. More accurately, it is a social conservatism, calling for a moral trickling down to the socially brutish. In her emphasis on people's "moral style," Mrs. Trilling defends a moral basis for all manner of social interaction. She relates a parable of dining etiquette, of once mentioning table manners while eating as a guest in one of the Harvard Houses. "It was very sweet," she says, "because when I said this to a group of students, they all became very self-conscious...