Word: rude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This rude, curt and genuinely self-absorbed behavior, all in the name of academic focus, reminds me of an appropriate adage from the Adams House tunnels, that keeps me in check on a daily basis...
...there (they are counting on you)! Oh! The thought of what could happen if you don't get there in time (if you don't turn it in on time!) Don't do laundry! Don't hold the door for the guy behind you! Be rude! Leave the dining hall trays piled with the half-eaten food outside your door! Don't make eye contact! You are NOT trivial like they are! Because you are the CRUX! The LYNCHPIN that holds the universe together! You are a HARVARD student! And no person anywhere EVER has done anything approaching the vital...
...Fort Foote Elementary, a public school in Fort Washington, Md., Chickquita Jackson, a veteran instructor, testifies that "before character education came in, the kids were hostile, had bad attitudes and were very rude to classmates and adults...Now it's 100% better." At Fort Foote, character lessons are so integrated into the curriculum that even math problems illustrate the value of sharing. A student spotted doing something nice receives a hot pink ribbon that says, "I DID A RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS...
That's one reason orlistat users are supposed to change their eating habits. If someone takes it without also switching to a low-fat diet, says Dr. Michael Hamilton, director of Duke University's Diet and Fitness Center, "that person is going to have a rude awakening...
...sure enough, that's what happens in Michael Hoffman's adaptation, which oxymoronically manages to seem both leaden and hasty. Reset for no discernible reason from ancient Athens to 19th century Tuscany, it focuses on the fun stuff--the fairies who inhabit the damp but enchanted wood, the rude mechanicals (led by Kevin Kline's hammy but well-cured Bottom) and their awful-wonderful production of Pyramus and Thisbe...