Word: uncivility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These are the politer ploys in what has become a rather uncivil war. Fighting fire with ire, bumper stickers declaim: KISSING A SMOKER IS LIKE LICKING A DIRTY ASHTRAY. A bellicose lapel button declares: SMOKERS STINK. Since slogans do not extinguish cigarettes, many antis become vigilantes. A scourge at some business conventions these days is a self-appointed enforcer who goes around plucking butts from smokers' mouths. One vigilante tactic: when a fellow guest lights up after dinner, an antismoker dunks his hand in the smoker's water glass. "What the...!" expostulates the smoker...
...codified their resistance into vast intellectual systems. Such people, says Cuddihy, reacted to anti-Semitism by exposing the hypocrisy at the root of non-Jewish "appearances," despising those who concealed their Jewishness out of embarrassment. They showed that behind the Gentile's surface "refinement" lay the universal "uncivil...
Perhaps most ominous, civil servants were showing a distinctly uncivil tendency to walk off their jobs. In Baltimore, the walkout by 3,000 trash collectors, jail guards, zookeepers and other city workers ended when the city and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees reached agreement on a new contract that made a mockery of Mayor William D. Schaefer's vow to hold pay increases to 6%. Garbage men's salaries will leap 20%%, from $3.42 an hour to $4.12, by July 1975, while policemen's will soar 22%, to a maximum...
...fish and chips, telling each other how great it is to be English. They are joined by Mr. and Mrs. Martin, and the Fire Chief, who comes looking for fires, but instead ravishes the Maid, and then leaves in search of his Ideal. The play ends in a very uncivil brawl, with the Martins and the Smiths shouting nonsense syllables at each other. Underlying it all is a supreme non-intelligence, the John Bullish buck-up-chaps mentality. The Maid expresses it well when she looks at a content Mr. and Mrs. Martin--"Let's not try to know...
...transpired on December 11 in Harvard Yard did not interfere with the freedom of speech or of the movement of the Dean within the meaning of the Resolution nor did it obstruct the essential processes of the University. Though the Committee believes that the treatment accorded the Dean was uncivil and unacceptable, it notes that some students may have believed that chanting slogans was not proscribed by the Resolution (as indeed it is not) and that this particular instance of persistent chanting while closely following the Dean therefore was a tolerable extension of the general right to carry on political...