Word: uncivil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Walter Rathenau called the great wave of humanity that is each generation "the vertical invasion of the barbarians." Every 20 years or so, an entire generation arrives on the Earth, uncivil and uneducated. The job of society (that is, of any society that wants to recreate itself) is to tame those barbarians...
...write to acknowledge with disappointment your letter of March 3. I had not expected such an uncivil letter from you and your fellow officers; no communication I had received in recent months from anyone in PBHA had taken such a tone. Assistant Dean of Public Service Judith H. Kidd, who reported having had a congenial breakfast with you only a couple of weeks ago, was equally startled; and in a friendly and solicitous visit I had from the current PBHA President only a few days before I received your letter, there was no hint of the kind of animosity your...
...concerned citizen who reached the end of his patience over an "uncivil and ugly" Congress, Braden is riding to the rescue in the name of mainstream Americans. As a combat veteran--he served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars--he backs a strong national defense but also wants to crack down on inefficient Pentagon spending. His most dramatic proposal: to deprive the President and Congress of their full salary should they fail to pass a budget by Oct. 1 each year...
...soon tired of Baker's hysterics and went up to our training session. He then pursued the one student who had promised to report his uncivil behavior. She was heading for the other entrance to the building, and he attempted to intimidate and harass her into dropping her complaint, at one point asking if she (a black student) had problems with him simply because he was a white male...
...doesn't re-enlist for the Senate, he says, it's not because he's disenchanted with public life. "Look," he says, getting energized, "the current rap on politics is that it's mean-spirited and uncivil, that this country is broke and you can't do anything. That's self-indulgent horse manure. We're the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world. Oh, gee, a politician is disappointed in the process and in what government can do," he says, his voice leavened with sarcasm. "Well, go to a military cemetery on Memorial Day and bitch about how democracy...