Word: rude
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mountains." They mean spiritual, natural, ancestral energy, not the kind that could come off the high-tech Machu Picchu on the hill. In Los Alamos, the holistic weapons careerists in the cafeteria choose beansprouts and yogurt and reject actual nuclear war as theoretically implausible. It is downright rude in Los Alamos for an outsider-or even an insider-to raise questions concerning war or peace. The first causes moral qualm, the second unemployment...
That night the Mobilization for Survival speaker was incredulous. Aren't the Draper employees fed up? he asked. Don't they she that they are tools of the management? Don't they want to do more useful work: And gee, how come they're it all no rude? We can Harley make our points, here...
...harmless practice is an advertisement of insecurity and prestige by association. The news that better sorts wear only navy blue and gray should seal the musty fate of millions of brown suits, and dinner-party hostesses may never get another compliment after the pronouncement that upper classes find praise rude, "possessions there being of course beautiful, expensive and impressive, without question...
...Rude and Smooth...
...Rude and Smooth...