Word: crassness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know? Maybe it led them to expect that everyone passed, so that some did not study, and therefore failed. I do not know what they expected, and I would not say in public or in private until I asked the students themselves. For you to assume you know is crass speculation...
...monstrous nose will render him ridiculously ugly in her eyes. And so he puts his words of eloquence, passion and longing at the service of the handsome and inarticulate dolt Christian, whom Roxane fancies. Cyrano also possesses some of the romantic chivalry of Don Quixote. He tilts at the crass, compromising windbags of this world. He has an in nate gallantry that makes his last-act death scene extremely poignant...
...There is something odious and all too American about the contrived emotionalism and crass commercialism lavished upon a few hundred ex-prisoners of war, and the dehumanizing indifference in which thousands of war-maimed veterans are doomed to live out their shattered lives...
...served by Kyle's crass attempt to manage the news and screen vital information from the community. The issues of the day can only be resolved if the maximum amount of information and opinion from all shades of the political spectrum are widely circulated. We reject Kyle's attempt as we will reject all such attempts in the future, no matter from what quarter they are issued. The Crimson will continue to report and comment on the affairs of this community, and we will continue to treat with disdain those who would hamper our efforts...
...only does holding Kissinger's chair open indicate an unhealthy University-government combination, but, more generally, the facility with which faculty move from Cambridge to Washington implies a crass and widespread misuse of Harvard's prestige. The incentives drawing Harvard professors to Washington do not exclusively center on self-improvement (greed), but the desperation with which those men cling to the prestigious designation "Cambridge intelligentsia" probably does...