Word: rude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police and the community groups have about themselves and each other. Distrust is mutual -and obvious-at the start. "The Negro is lazy and uncooperative." "He has no self-respect." "He's immoral, has no regard for life or property," say the police. "Police are cold, mechanical, rude," say the citizens. "They use foul language and call Negroes nigger, or boy, or uncle, or woman." "They treat suspects differently depending on their race and economic status, and they are prone to violence...
...leaders continued to examine their own consciences, some extraordinary events were occurring. The Czechoslovak Supreme Court decided to review all cases heard in the 1950s in a search for those who may have been falsely accused and unjustly convicted. After five days of meetings, reported the newspaper Rude Pravo, party watchdogs in the Foreign Ministry "demanded that the foreign policy of Czechoslovakia have a new face." Strangest of all, the party censors in the Interior Ministry announced that they wanted to go out of business. "We have reached the conclusion," they said, "that preventive political censorship should be abolished...
...characters, primarily the downtrodden landlords, Raevskaya (Marilyn Pitzele), her brother Gaev (Bro Uttal) and their adopted daughter Varya (Janet Leslie). The style becomes part of the dramatic action of the production. It is a hot house aristocratic style of life and acting; constantly undercut on one side by a rude bourgeois frankness (played with 20th century realism) and on the other by a broad comedy, which is often the symbol and mockery of unclutered peasant bumpkinry...
...that one could find without looking too hard a great many fine Marxist thinkers who observed all of the traditional standards of scholarship in their work, and whose presence would do credit to any university in the world. Men of the calibre of Christopher Hill, Edward Thompson, George Rude, Eric Hobsbawm, Albert Soboul, Maurice Dobb, Louis Althussen, and Herbert Marcuse, to mention only a few from a long list, were being referred...
...from the heady atmosphere of the race in outer space. Unless there is a rebirth of national leadership in the maritime field, stemming from public awareness and concern, we may find ourselves aroused from our present apathy by what the noted naval historian, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan called: "the rude awakening of those who have abandoned their share of the common birthright of all people...