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Rhinoceros Qualities. Bella knows that her abrasive manner grates on her colleagues. As one fastidious member says: "When Bella comes roaring into the cloakroom, mutters a few four-letter words and elbows you out of the way, you want to treat her as you would treat any rude man. But sometimes when she has that hat off, and she is talking about the things she cares about, her face is really pretty...
...only compounded. Germans tend to be on time to the second; the English tend to be either five minutes late or five minutes early. To be too exact is to be, well, a bit Teutonic, but to be more than ten minutes late without a good excuse is inexcusably rude. In South America and the Latin countries of Europe, however, it is almost too difficult to be too late. If a hostess wants her guests to be prompt -meaning half an hour or so after the stated time-she specifies an "English hour," or sometimes in Latin America, an "American...
...York City is insufferably dirty, rude, crowded, expensive, unpleasant and even dangerous. Aside from the Communists and some Arab delegates who talk of moving to a more "neutral" country, those who would bail out want primarily to live in a less troubled place. Their preferences, in order: Geneva, San Francisco, Rome and even West Berlin. The stayers claim to like New York's cultural life and its unparalleled communications. One diplomat sighed, "We are just stuck here." That seemed to express a common worry: if the U.N. were to move away, the U.S.-which still picks...
...Palmer-Dixon Courts. We tried to do everything to prevent a reoccurrence of this incident but there were a few irresponsible seniors who indulged in this senseless activity last Thursday night. This was totally inexcusable. Not only was this rowdy group who initiated the raucous food fight rude to our guests who graciously agreed to present a program but also inconsiderate of possible damage to the paintings. Plans for future Senior Dinners should be terminated if their outcomes are displays of the seniors' pitching abilities and lack of decorum...
Othello is a poet in uniform, a dreamer on the field of combat, but never rude or crude-which Jones tends to forget. The Moor is not the toughest boy in the barracks but a man obsessed by romance, heroism and honor. He dwells in images and on them. Even in the act of suicide, he summons up an image of how he once smote a circumcised dog of a Turk. His love of Desdemona is a kind of image of love. His heart breaks when lago tarnishes that image, long before Desdemona herself is actually destroyed. Neither Olivier...