Word: boorish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lynah Rink, which unofficially holds 4 1/2 thousand, closed it doors at 7 p.m. only 30 minutes after its general admission seats were made available to the student body. As boorish as the fans were, the game was kept well under control by referees William Stewart and Giles Threadgold, both from Boston...
...slums of Barcelona. Similarly, whores with diamond earrings are no different from the 100 pesatas per night girls he met while still a dock worker. Rosi carries these parallels to extremes; even the jet-set types at elegant after-parties wolf their food the same way Miguelin's boorish father did on the farm...
That legacy was the product of a man whose personality and ideas still surprise both his critics and his friends. Far from being a socialist left-winger, Keynes (pronounced canes) was a high-caste Establishment leader who disdained what he called "the boorish proletariat" and said: "For better or worse, I am a bourgeois economist." Keynes was suspicious of the power of unions, inveighed against the perils of inflation, praised the virtue of profits. "The engine which drives Enterprise," he wrote, "is not Thrift but Profit." He condemned the Marxists as being "illogical and so dull" and saw himself...
...your letters to the editor concerning the Administration's actions in Viet Nam [May 21] are any indication of predominant current feeling toward intellectuals, your statement in the Essay seems to be contradictory. If "anti-eggheadry is at a new low," why are university students referred to as "boorish malcontents," professors accused of having "tortured and specious reasoning," and why is it suggested that "more of our officials take McBundy's example and slap a few of these intellectuals down...
...errors of military involvement as a justification for mass protest. No one is about to deny these students their rights. They can wallow in their own naivete as long as they want. But mere disagreement and nonconformism cannot by any means explain the uncontrolled vehemence with which these boorish malcontents voice their objections...