Word: rude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thunderous Picnic. The death ended a literary vendetta as implacable as any feud in the Kentucky hills. Tall, handsome Stanhope and rude, arrogant Curtal spent a lifetime competing for women, fame, friends, disciples and the minds of men. Atheist, lecher and revolutionary...
...what is most striking about the communique from Professors Hoffman and Kissinger is their rude refusal, within the local community of scholars, to argue soberly in behalf of their evident commitment to test resumpton. Instead of answering the protest, they pretend to explain it in the manner noted above. Prior to this letter, such rhetoric was the special property of Goldwater, Nixon, Buckley and Welch. Now it is introduced into the Harvard community in this defensive and fake "answer" to a protest against a government policy which the writers themselves admit is open to legitimate challenge...
Divorced. By Natalie (Gypsy) Wood, 23, Hollywood's latest up-and-atom bombshell: Tintype Cinemactor Robert Wagner, 32; on grounds of mental cruelty (Nat's mother witnessed: "He was even rude to me''); after four years of marriage; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...surprising that no one, from high society to workers, invites pieds-noirs to their homes." About the only group to escape the widespread condemnation are young pied-noir girls, because 1) they are uncommonly good-looking; 2) being women, they are appreciably less crude and rude than the refugee men; and 3) the wartime climate of Algeria has made them eager for amour...
...would be rude and stupid to ask meanings of this beautiful structure; the play's words and themes do not from a logical unit, and its point is beyond words. The point is simply the climax of motion and artifice, the Queen's dance...