Word: cruder
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...could look in another direction and see symbols of black respectability: a neatly kept house containing a family with three well-educated schoolteachers. He could also see a white school, but instead of attending it he had to walk five miles to reach his black school. He experienced cruder prejudice early. At the age of six, he rushed happily into a store, whistled innocently for service?and saw the white shopkeeper point a gun at him. What later bothered him most was that no black adults in the store said anything...
...cutting to their two faces: Seastrom cuts to their feet walking along the country road. The physical aspect of the decision, the characters' actions in their real setting, takes over from Griffith's spiritual. abstract tendency. Yet Seastrom's acting style remains melodramatic. If anything Lars Hansen is cruder than Griffith's heroes: his gestures are slower and broader. Where Griffith would concentrate on the face. Seastrom gives us the whole body and thus avoids Griffith's idealistic extremes...
...COURSE ASSISTANT. It was Bunny Largess. Visiting Professor of Half-Truths, who formulated the now-famous rule on " choosing a course assistant. " In Bunny's own words. " Make sure he is cruder, more reactionary, and basically less pleasant than even you are. Then give him a free hand. " It is also important that the assistant be totally inept as a lecturer ( ideally he should drool as well as lisp ), and that he cast a favorable light on your physical appearance. [ In the event that your academic credentials are likewise open to question be careful to pick an assistant with ones...
...Course Assistant. It was Bunny Largess, Visiting Professor of Half Truths, who formulated the now-famous rule on "choosing a course assistant." In Bunny's own words, "Make sure he is cruder, more reactionary, and basically less pleasant than even you are. Then give him a free hand." It is also important that the assistant be totally inept as a lecturer (ideally he should drool as well as lisp), and that he cast a favorable light on your physical appearance. [In the event that your academic credentials are likewise open to question, be careful to pick an assistant with ones...
...characters are archly precious, their story willfully disjointed in the telling. Elegantly bored, they spend much of their time lounging in bed or bars, or leafing through the works of Marx, Lenin and Stalin in the public library to find pages mutilated or subversive notations made by angrier, cruder objectors to the System. Yet as Arlecq drifts from reflections on jazz music, to two desultory love affairs, to a funeral, to scenes from the failed marriage of a friend, the author manages some artful acts that reveal the writer behind the discontented esthete. Moments of fiction materialize, coolly precise, sharp...