Word: uncouthness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's Nehru, said a newsman, had declared that Americans are "uncouth." Did he agree? U Nu dissented gently: "I have never been slapped on the back before by anyone in Burma except my children," he conceded, "but if I was sometimes treated with unseemly familiarity by backslapping Americans, I soon realized that it was not rudeness but friendliness that prompted their action...
...lovers' mental fig leaves so firmly in place that they sin only in their minds. To a love affair which proves to be as innocuous as Pablum, Author Shapiro adds some government-issue characters from the standard stockpile of all war novels. There is the hero's uncouth, hell-for-leather pal who "buys it" on Dday. There is the bullet-spitting ex-auto salesman, bucking for general, who comes drunkenly apart at the seams once he gets a briefing on the German fortifications in his attack sector. There are camp followers, goldbricks and, for a touch...
...acting too much like a chip off the late Great Profile, slapped a $55,-750 breach-of-contract suit on him for acting up while making a string of movies in England. The charges, similar to those made against Junior last August by a Connecticut summer theater: uncouth public squabbles with his wife Cara, insults to other actors, all-round misbehavior...
...lack left the Egyptologists on dignified tenterhooks. Last summer the missing inscription was found on a stone built into a later structure. The scholars now know that the inscription is just what Egyptian schoolboys would be likely to copy. It tells how their Pharaoh Kamose defeated the uncouth Hyksos...
...impoverished financially, but his were the riches of the influence of a Spartan but cultured mother and a cherished heritage from his father, a Confederate cavalry officer. Your statement that he "roared around town yelling 'Hiya, boy' " is simply not true. He was not uncouth, as suggested, but very much a gentlemanly man. E. H. CRUMP JR. Memphis...