Word: rude
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...understand that students very occasionally have to leave or do something else," he says. "It is rude, to be sure, but only truly disruptive when a student who has to leave in the middle of a lecture sits in a prominent place. And students underestimate how prominent they are to us, and their fellow students...
Like Sunday's game against EMU, Harvard added insult to injury by routing Columbia Union in three games, including a disparagingly rude shutout in the final game that clinched a playoff berth for the Crimson...
...African-American vibes, it wants to make Jet Li the first Asian black star. Maybe it'll work. At an early screening of the film, some black teenagers watched Li total his opponents in the football scrimmage scene. As he nimbled over the goal line, a girl shouted a rude compliment: "That nigger's hot!" Jet Li, welcome to the brotherhood...
Noah D. Oppenheim's (Column, March 17) description of "egregiously rude" students who asked Pat Buchanan questions makes me wonder whether he was at the speech or whether he is deliberately changing the context of students' questions. Oppenheim quotes a student saying: "Well, perhaps white Catholics and Christians such as yourself are not qualified to be here...
Less egregiously rude, but equally unproductive, were those who called Buchanan to task for his past offenses, both spoken and written. There are certainly plenty of these, and bringing them to light is a legitimate tactic of criticism. But, for some reason, those at yesterday's address felt compelled to employ what I can only describe as a carpet-bombing approach. Rather than rationally probe Buchanan's extremely vulnerable ideas, each questioner, in their turn, would simply let out a maelstrom: "Mr. Buchanan, in 1977 you wrote 'x' about the Jews. In 1983 you wrote 'y' about black people...