Word: uncouthness
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...mate. Even his recreation is isolated: "As chairman, his golf dates are rare, are always arranged in advance by his secretary, and the foursome is invariably selected from not over six possibilities. If duck shooting is his sport, he will be found at a small private club where no uncouth voice is heard; if it is fishing the lodge will be remote and the waters privately stocked and patrolled...
Time may make ancient good uncouth; more often it makes ancient commonplace the latest luxury. The airplane was the prestigious way to Europe 15 years ago-now the steamship has status value because it takes longer. At the turn of the century, only the rich had autos; now-only they can afford horses. Electricity has made the once lowly candle a symbol of gracious living, and fireplaces are included only in the most astronomically expensive modern apartments...
...Couth & the Uncouth. The postwar poets fall into two broad categories: the couth and the uncouth. So far the uncouth have not communicated much in the way of poetry, but they have come through loud and clear in the headlines. Dirty, noisy, loaded with banal aggression, The Beat Generation in the U.S. and the "Teddy-bards" in Britain have put poetry in the news for the first time since the '20s. ("The Beats have taken poetry out of the academic study," says one critic, "and put it in the subway restroom.") And the success of the uncouth has encouraged...
...Hustler. A young pool shark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust on the Cloth of Green. In the hands of Director Robert Rossen, the uncouth theme rings as true as a struck spittoon...
...Hustler. A young pool shark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust on the Cloth of Green. In the hands of Director Robert Rossen, the uncouth theme rings as true as a struck spittoon...