Word: falutin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...virtues is his lack of condescension. The journal is full of simple declarations of the equalness of blue-collar and white-collar man, and the trusting plain-faced manner in which Coleman voices this truth makes one believe he is not mouthing high-falutin' doctrine...
Second, I was from the Midwest, and the nouveau riche out there have a notion of high-falutin' Harvard. At Detroit cocktail parties when someone drops the name, a shock of respect invariably registers on the listener's face. Second strike--I suffered from a feeling of cultural inferiority...
...gained his latter-day reputation in the late fifties. Coming out of a semi-retirement which he spent as a carpenter in a Long Island town, he derided the Hollywood white elephants of that day in punchy prose. He didn't hurl jeremiads from on high, as high-falutin' auteurists do given half the provocation. Instead, he coined the phrase "termite art" to describe what he did like--taut action films with subversively-explored characters--and pulled off a Socratic sleight-of-language which reduced the Establishment to outraged epithets...