Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extending its Quemoy cease-fire for another fortnight. "This is not a betrayal," Red China's local commanders felt it necessary to assure their troops in a special proclamation. "This is a racial righteousness. We must draw a clear-cut line between the Chinese and the Americans." The crude Communist pitch: to split Chinese Nationalists off from the U.S. But whatever Red China's reasons for cease-fire's extension, the first fact about Quemoy was that Red China, after 44 days of shelling, had failed to subdue a little island only seven miles from its shore...
...Latino also tends to combine the romantic loftiness of Don Quixote with the earthy unscrupulousness of Sancho Panza. He has genius for wholehearted friendship, and this is what U.S. statesmen should appeal to. But "on the level of mundane existence he is prone to be a refined or crude sensualist. He needs material things for life, but he is not squeamish how they are to be acquired. Since leisure, high speculation and ecstacy mean so much to him, he is coldly indifferent to how the material needs of life are to be achieved. If it requires the exploitation...
...crude presentation of theme is as irritating as the superficial characterization of Bogard. The author hammers at what he considers the problem of our generation: we lack conviction or concern enough to take a stand on any significant issue. The interview between Bogard and the dean forms a superfluous gift-wrapped packaging of the book's thesis. The dean declares that Bogard's is the "Indifferent" Generation...
Sixty years ago, when most scholars looked on American literature as a collection of crude provincial sentiment, Harvard had one undergraduate course in the subject. Now, after the genius of Poe and Melville, Whitman and Twain and James has finally been recognized, and after Dreiser and Faulkner and Pound have become world-renowned, Harvard...
...authors-Captain William J. Lederer, U.S.N., an Annapolis graduate and special assistant to Admiral Felix B. Stump in the Pacific, and Political Scientist and Novelist (The Ninth Wave) Eugene Burdick-have chosen to write a series of fictional sketches "based on fact." They are really a series of crude, black-and-white cartoons...