Word: rudeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo, a prince took a commoner for a bride. Popular as his choice was, it did not take a rude intrusion from an angry student in the street to demonstrate that the royal family still has more to do to establish its new place in the minds of a new generation of Japanese. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Prince Takes a Bride...
General Marcos Perez Jimenez, 44, the plump, well-manicured ex-dictator of Venezuela, got a rude order last week from the U.S. Immigration Service: get out of the country by April 15. Perez Jimenez has been living in a $300,000 mansion in Florida on a temporary visa and a diplomatic passport given him, in a show of chivalry, by the revolutionary junta that bounced him from office 15 months...
Earnest is a comedy of manners--not a duplication but certainly a parody of the manners of Society in the English 1890's. Its characters are frequently rude on purpose, never by accident; they often exhibit bad manners, but it is impossible to conceive of their having no manners--unless, evidently, you are Stephen Aaron, who directed this production. Mr. Aaron: a gentleman never sits while a lady is standing, especially if the lady is a Lady, and no less if "she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair." Moreover, a fashionable young...
...families, which caused violent opposition as men, women, children and old people were herded into separate barracks, and 2) great unrest over wages and work, from peasants laboring sometimes from 19 to 20 hours a day. The Central Committee seemed surprised to learn that many local leaders were rude and dictatorial, and that they warned commune members to keep their mouths shut and "do what you are told...
...Suisse, the other a top, unnamed official of the Union de Banques Suisse. For Switzerland, whose banks have for so long prospered in peace or war (other people's wars) on the secret accounts of the high and mighty, Franco's arrest of Swiss bankers was a rude and unexpected blow. Said an official of Société de Banque Suisse: "We are taking a very serious view. The matter concerns all banks and our entire banking system...