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...that propelled America from a somnolent agrarianism to a modern industrialism, said that if Rip van Winkle had fallen asleep in Muncie in 1885 and awakened in 1929, he would not be able to cope with the new Middletown. The new researchers think his awakening would be far less rude today. Says Caplow: "If Rip van Winkle went to sleep 50 years ago and returned to Muncie today, he would not have too many adjustment problems...
...does on Saturday, Harvard may manage to do some singing of its own in giving UConn a rude awakening. "Good morning, UConn?" LINESCORE Harvard 0 0 0 -- 0 Wesleyan...
...today's 3 p.m. contest at Wesleyan against a rough-and-tumble Cardinal squad (Ford: "They're not just tough, they're rude") will give the Crimson a chance to avoid another "Soccer Loses Again" headline...
...sitcom written with the dramatic depth of this one. Other shows may have serious (usually mawkish) scenes or deal with topical issues; Taxi is about serious people. Though the drivers are in some ways conventional TV characters, they are also lost souls, losers set back by life's rude shocks. They dream hungrily of finer things-of love or loftier careers-and when their dreams collapse, they turn to one another for support. In the opening episode, a surprisingly melancholy sitcom premiere, one driver (Judd Hirsch) takes off for Florida to attempt a reunion with a daughter he abandoned...
Begin's responses, however, have often seemed inadequate and at times rude. Speaking in January at a Jerusalem banquet for Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel, for example, Begin patronizingly referred to his guest as a "young man" who failed to understand the supposed parallel between the Palestinian desire for a homeland on the West Bank and the Nazis' claim to the Sudetenland. Later he brusquely dismissed the significance of Sadat's visit to Jerusalem by asserting: "We have existed, my dear Egyptian friends, without your recognition for 3,700 years. We never asked your President or government to recognize...