Word: crassness
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...irony surrounding Steinbrenner, then, is that in bringing a winner to New York, his petulance has made winning seem crass. That, to all who cherish the Yankees, not only as winners but as sportsmen, seems a sorry perversion of a proud tradition...
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS have a heavy responsibility to speak out--not only on education issues, but also other concerns. They carry, however, an equally weighty duty to speak as informed educators, to avoid appearing to have succumbed to crass lobbying efforts or to have acted before thinking. Matina Horner correctly dissociated her stance from Radcliffe. But given the inevitable connection between an institution and its leader in the public eye, she bore a heavy responsibility to appear thoughtful...
...hatred, has gone into self-imposed exile in Venice; Sebastian becomes a doomed and hopeless alcoholic. "Poor Mummy," he says, when he later learns of her death. "She was a true femme fatale. She killed with a touch." Sebastian's beautiful sister Julia (Quick) meantime marries a crass politician, and Charles, who has become a painter, enters into an unhappy marriage of his own. Ten years later, the two of them meet again on an ocean liner, and Charles loves the sister as he did the brother-on-camera this time. Summing up 12½ hours, Bloom jokingly remarks...
...hypocrisy of any "Christian" group using homophobia and crass insensitivities toward Asians, women and Hispanics is distressing; that the Seymour Society would use these abuses to further division and antagonism when unity and cooperation are needed is deplorable. As Proverbs states: "A poor man who oppresses the poor, is a beating rain that leaves no food." French Wall '83 President, HRGSA
...REAL VALUE of the book lies in its explanation of the indirect benefits of conservation. Mankind could lose valuable but as yet unknown drugs from plants, the esthetic beauty of the gnarled Bristle Cone Pines and the majestic blue whales, and the companionship of our pets. Crass, short-term harvesting of whales to make a profit or use of DDT to save time, or polluting to cut costs--all these deprive us of natural novelties which once gone can never be creat#d again...