Word: rude
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Most Austrians feel the decision to bar President Kurt Waldheim from the U.S. ((WORLD, May 11)) was rude and offensive, especially since Austria is a friendly country. While many Austrians are unhappy about the way Waldheim handled the charges that were leveled against him, they are convinced he committed no crimes during World War II. Austria should not be treated like a banana republic. This nation's painful history, particularly from 1918 to 1945, is much too complicated to be judged by U.S. officials. As far as Waldheim's "incomplete" memory is concerned, he joins the ranks of other respectable...
...must surely offend writers who have suffered physical and mental pain under the Soviet system while Yevtushenko flourished. But that is an old, sad story of envies, misunderstandings and compromises that the author does not confront. Rather he defends his style on the justifiable grounds that poetry springs from rude experience and common speech...
...Riebeeck disembarked at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 to establish a supply station for Dutch East India Company vessels en route to India, he found nobody except a few brown-skinned nomads whom the Dutch called Hottentots. Van Riebeeck described these aborigines as a "dull, rude, lazy and stinking nation," and most of them subsequently died in an epidemic of smallpox, brought on a company ship from India. To do the heavy work, the Dutch settlers, who were soon joined by a number of Germans and French Huguenot refugees, brought in slaves, mostly from Madagascar, Mozambique...
Civil libertarians suggested the ruling will cramp the style of broadcasters as well as the range of subjects they are willing to discuss. Barry Lynn, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer in Washington, D.C., noted that Stern's monologues may be rude, but they are not lewd and are "well within the bounds of protected bad taste" as guaranteed by the First Amendment. David Salniker, executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, which operates one of the stations reprimanded by the FCC, argued that the agency is far too vague about where it is drawing the line. "Does this mean that...
...identity of the financial community's latest fallen wizard, Boyd Jefferies, may have come as less than a rude shock, since the prominent Los Angeles stock trader was known to have dealt heavily with Arbitrager Ivan Boesky. But on Wall Street, where scandal is becoming almost routine, Jefferies' announcement last week that he would plead guilty to two criminal charges created a whole new sense of dread. For Jefferies was not charged with insider trading, as a dozen others were, but with other rule-bending practices that have become commonly tolerated. The case against Jefferies, based partly on tips provided...