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Heedless, irreverent, unlovely, cultivating huge beards, shod in polished top-boots-the last refinement of the farmer's cowhides-wearing linen dickeys over hickory shirts, moving through pools of tobacco juice ... the decade of the [eighteen] seventies was only too plainly mired and floundering in a bog of bad taste. A world of triumphant and unabashed vulgarity without its like in our history, it was not aware of its plight, but accounted its manners genteel and boasted of ways that were a parody on sober good sense.

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Rhetoric Review
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2002-04-01
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10.1207/s15327981rr2102_02
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