Word: crassness
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...told by many timorous writers that 'flaming youth' is to blame for most of the woes of the modern world: that our young people are without reverence for the past, regardless of law and order, brutally frank, destitute of reticence and modesty and humility, crass and coarse in manners and in speech," said Dr. Faunce...
...crass will question the utility of a store devoted to selling poetry, and praise the invisible hand that slowly strangled the hapless business, squashing an enterprise that prospered through the Great Depression and under nine U.S. presidents. We abhor this attitude. Too much of Cambridge’s history is being lost for the embrace of this blasé worship of capitalism—red in tooth and claw—to be permissible. In 2000, the historic Bow & Arrow Pub served its last pint, culminating a decade of the Square’s cultural decline. In 1992 customers literally...
...wasn’t long, however, before the real Bush reemerged, with all of his opportunistic alchemy. First he converted terrorist hysteria into repressive gold with the USA PATRIOT Act, and then into corporate gold with crass tax cuts and, finally, into neocon gold with a preemptive war in Iraq...
...Europeans rightly laugh at American fundementalism. "Super Bowl Debacle"?!? In the midst of two hours of bone-breaking ultra-violence, viewers are suddenly treated to a brief view of something that is a symbol of nurturing and goodness! Yes, perhaps exposed for crass commercial reasons, but it's just one of 300 million to be found in America. There are other boobs Americans should be more concerned about. Like George Dubious? Michael West Denmark...
...memo is the latest proof that the Pentagon is running its own foreign policy and simply doesn't care whether it ticks off people in foreign capitals--in fact, rather enjoys doing so. Maybe I've got a case of seasonal goodwill, but I doubt that things are so crass. Of late, senior Defense Department officials have been acting almost house-trained when traveling overseas: witness Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's mild reaction last month to the European Union's latest plans to set up its own defense organization alongside NATO...