Word: rudeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thinly fictionalized, essentially documentary book tells, in the words of Defense Attorney Paul Biegler, of the investigation and trial that follow. Biegler gets a series of rude shocks: luscious Laura's husband has a nasty disposition and a tendency to attack any man who admires his wife. There is some doubt that Laura was raped at all (in examining this problem, Author Voelker is even more clinical than James Gould Cozzens was in By Love Possessed). To make things still tougher for Defense Attorney Biegler, the prosecuting attorney-who is also Biegler's rival in an imminent congressional...
...General Francisco Franco led an army of Moors and Legionnaires out of Africa to join in the Spanish Civil War that brought him to power. Ever since, lance-bearing, scarlet-robed Moorish cavalrymen have attended the dictator on state occasions. But the rude surge of Moroccan nationalism, threatening to overrun Spanish holdings in North Africa, put the old soldier's loyalty to his Moors under heavy strain...
Unfortunately, Dreyer's defects are almost as spectacular as his virtues. If he is passionately true to himself, he can also be childishly subjective: his conception of the Christ (Preben Lerdorff Rye), for instance, is simply silly. And at times he is pointlessly rude to his audience. It is all very well to make a scene move slowly when the slowness adds to the weight and seriousness of the situation. But there is no good esthetic reason why every scene, regardless of content, should move at the doleful, two-beat trudge of a funeral march...
...Vermont curiosity is traditionally impolite. Even so, Vermonters wonder why a state that ranks 48th in murder should rank so high in self-destruction (about five male suicides for each female, 3½ times as many gunshot deaths as hangings). Some have become rude enough to hypothesize. State Pathologist Richard S. Woodruff blames the suicide rate on three local factors: 1) two centuries of inbreeding, 2) mental depression stimulated by lonely mountains and rugged climate, 3) lack of mental health facilities. State Tax Commissioner Leonard W. Morrison adds a practical fourth cause. Says he of a state where...
...Hawkins wanders through a bargain basement jungle and holds forth with humorless impunity against the bourgeois idiom and the "rude, smelly shoppers...