Word: rude
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Finger Lakes region of New York, Spencer Kimball, 85, president of the Mormon Church, joined 400 worshipers in the tiny town of Fayette (pop. 250). There they dedicated an exact replica of the rude cabin where, 150 years ago last week, Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. and six followers founded a new church...
...Russell describes the trial as a parody "meant for the stage," a spectacle of "ignorance." And Mr. Ezera tells us that the "trial represented a stripping of students from the cocoon of middle-class isolation" (sic) and "a rude awakening to the blatant racism inherent in the American judicial system." "During the trial," he says, "I felt as though someone were out there...
...Brenda A. Russell's recent editorial on the Emeka Ezera trial, she begins with the sentence, "It could have been a coutroom parody and people would have laughed to see such ignorance." From Emeka Ezera's viewpoint, "The trial was a rude awakening to the blatant racism inherent in the American judicial system." Yet after reading the evidence concerning the case, I am still puzzled by these two observations...
...similar point in their careers. The Specials flirt with social commentary and take on racial injustice in Doesn 't Make It Alright, whose straightforward lyric and fine-tuned beat steer way wide of solemnity. Specials and Madness members even dress in good-humored approximation of the Kingston "rude boys" of the '60s, from the careless cuffs of their pegged pants up to the porkpie hats that sit on their heads like a street hustler's version of cap and bells. In performance, both bands leap about in transports of benign dementia. The highlight of a Madness show...
...trial represented a stripping of students from their cocoon of middle class isolation. The trial was a rude awakening to the blatant racism inherent in the American judicial system." Ezera said after he left the courtroom. He added that he was pleased with the student support...