Word: uncouthness
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...Voting against somebody who is wrong, a category which includes liberals who want liberalism while spending all the available scratch on weaponry and the war, may be uncouth. But some would call it legitimate protest," Galbraith wrote...
...distracted by a long overdue awareness of her own insubstantiality. She is also distracted by other guests: an old platonic friend who she discovers is a homosexual, an alcoholic has-been novelist, a professional East Village poet who probably writes off LSD experiences as business trips, and a sexy, uncouth junk-sculptor...
Powell's pronouncements-and the British sentiment that they reflect-intruded into last week's London meeting of leaders from the 28 Commonwealth nations, of which 22 have predominantly nonwhite populations. Offended by articles in the British press that portrayed the behavior of Asian immigrants as uncouth and unclean, Pakistani Foreign Minister Arshad Husain rapped Britain for practicing discrimination. Rising in Britain's defense, Prime Minister Harold Wilson pointed to the "fiercely penal" anti-discrimination laws that his Labor Government has sponsored. Beyond that, Wilson could do little except plead: "Do not hold me responsible...
...former Der Spiegel newsmagazine editor who now is the Federal Republic's deputy spokesman. During the Bonn meeting of the world's financial authorities two weeks ago, Ahlers offered injudicious portrayals of some of the Western representatives' behavior behind the closed doors, characterizing them as "uncouth," "ill-bred" and "impudent...
...blighted slum areas as Manhattan's "Bloody Ould Sixth Ward," the unskilled and uneducated Irishman was the social outcast of the time. Terrorized by slum gangs (the Dead Rabbits and the Patsey Conroys), shunned by native Americans who despised his rough, alien ways, his papist religion and his uncouth brogue, the average Irish immigrant had to work at the most menial and degrading jobs, and he lived in desperate resentment. He certainly had no stake in the Civil War; indeed, it was the news that he would be subjected to a draft lottery, while well-heeled citizens could...