Word: rude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death knell of the realistic play is sounded every season, and each season some play refutes it. A Whistle in the Dark is just such a drama. It has the raw, roiling energy of life. It is full of the rude poetry of the commonplace. It states truths about human nature that one would rather forget, and reminds one that being born human is the alltime crisis of every...
Harvard is hurting after last Saturday's loss-both physically and psychologically. A victory over B.U. was to have been the confirmation of Harvard's excellent chance for the Ivy Championship and when the victory failed to come off, it was a rude shock...
...HEART of The Living Room War deals with the farce of television news coverage in general and Vietnam in particular. Whether news broadcasts are viewed as welcome interruptions of family entertainment or as rude incursions of the real world, the fact is that television stands or falls according to its news. The insurmountable obstacles which vitiate TV news are the physical nature ofthe screen, the commercial basis of the industry, its time structure, and the vague consecrated code of democratic mediocrity usually referred to as impartiality. Television is commonly given considerable credit for generating national discontent over...
...finish, all of which made the surface considerably faster than any the Rumanians have ever seen. The tourney was also notably lacking in traditional tennis gentility. While S.D.S. demonstrators chanted outside that the Davis Cup was a "function of the capitalist pigs," the Americans charged that the Rumanians were "rude," and the Rumanians accused court officials of making "strange calls." The matches themselves verged on farce. The U.S. team of Arthur Ashe, Bob Lutz and Stan Smith so thoroughly overpowered the Rumanians that in the final set of the fifth match, with Ashe leading Ion Tiriac 4-0, the Rumanian...
...issue, ten other professors addressed themselves to the question: "Is it becoming more difficult to teach . . . because of changing attitudes about the relevance of the past, the life of the mind, and disinterestedness?" Most concluded that it had-it was, after all, a leading question. Some professors mention certain "rude" and "unbelievably ignorant" students, but they generally sympathize with what they believe to be the concerns of most of their pupils...