Word: crass
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...literary conscience is especially inflamed against "crass stupidity in journalistic criticism." E. Bernbaum and W. A. Green grow positively heated over the ineptitudes of Boston, and other, critics of Ibsen and Shaw, and crush with grimness the wretched Grub Street on their wheel. Nay, more: they--especially Mr. Green--illustrate what journalistic criticism should be.--easily colloquial, anecdotal, popular, yet sound. Of course, the critics could rejoin that such writing means time and work: does the public want it badly enough to pay for it? Mr. Bernbaum, by the way, is depressed over the American public, is past even regretting...