Word: crude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later. "I'm ahead now. There's no point in being anything but optimistic." His showing had a galvanic effect, particularly on the legions of enthusiastic students who poured into New Hampshire to help him (see box opposite). Outside his once moribund New York offices appeared a crude sign: WELL...
Herbert Rawlins, Jr. '27 was a stylist, a player whose grace made him a pleasure to watch. Jack Barnaby '32, Harvard's present squash coach, wrote of him: "It was his pleasure to thwart the crude bludgeonings of sluggers with the rapier thrust of restrained but perfect accuracy." Rawlins took the National title...
...Harvard. Because there I can work and get exercise and although I'll have to take crap and people will order me around all the time, my mind will be free. Nobody there is going to make use of my mind. What will be required of me will be crude enough so I can stand outside of it. Whereas here what's required of me is the utilization of my most personal and most difficult ability--the ability to reform my mind to fit a certain way of thinking. Thta's too much pressure...
...novel by Pierre Boulle (The Bridge on the River Kwai) about the conflict of man and monkey was a clever, abrasive piece of science friction. But on the screen the story has been reduced from Swiftian satire to self-parody. The script is cluttered with man-monkey analogies, as crude as "Human see, human do," "I never met an ape I didn't like" and "he was a gorilla to remember." At one point, three of the simians simultaneously cover their eyes, ears and mouth. The best thing about the film results from Producer Arthur P. Jacobs' decision...
Wallace agrees. Jumping at the chance to hurt Democrats in the North, Wallace has attempted in the last year to convince Northerners that he is not just a crude racist--"My wife received 40 per cent of the nigger vote. These niggers know I want them to get educated." Instead of blatant racism, Wallace offers Northerners "sound Constitutional principles" because "I'm not running on segregation, I'm running on states' rights." That distinction makes him seem more respectable, so Northern whites find it easier to support him openly...