Word: baser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faddists of modern art and by implication to the empty messengers of any artistic age: "If the language of art gave voice to false, empty and confused spirits not in harmony with the Creator's design, if instead of lifting the mind and heart it stirred the baser passions ... it would degrade itself by denying its own essential aspect. It would be neither universal nor perennial as is the spirit...
...this theory of anti-Oppenheimer motive will not account for Admiral Strauss, no Air Force "zealot." The Alsops supply Strauss with a far baser motive than zealotry. It seems-and this will surprise hundreds of his business, official and intellectual acquaintances-that Strauss is an incredibly vain, arrogant and vengeful man. Years ago, Oppenheimer had the misfortune to humiliate Strauss in an argument about isotopes, say the Alsops, and Strauss never forgot...
...news of these preparations reached to Santa Fe. There, Roman Catholic Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne sat himself down and wrote a pastoral letter that was read in Albuquerque's Catholic churches last week. Wrote the archbishop: "Such beauty contests are an appeal to the baser instincts ... As the archbishop of the Catholics in this area, I forbid any Catholic to participate or help in any way in said beauty competition, and I entreat parents to prohibit their daughters from doing...
Centerfielder Bob Smith started the Crimson's rally with a single. Ray Mae-saka followed with another one-baser, and when Chuck Wade pinch-hit another single, the visitors had the bases loaded...
...except in the case of Tales of Hoffman. Of course, most of his worsts, like Alice in Wonderland and Robert Taylor in Quo Vadis, are sitting ducks, but the placing of Mario Lanza under the banner, "biggest argument for stricter immigration laws," is a clever ploy. Lampy shows his baser side only when he calls Franchot Tone "most miscast" for Tone's portrayal of a Boston Brahmin in Here Comes the Groom...