Word: crass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always uncensored. He will live beyond this generation to a better understanding by the next, because his was romance unbiased by the influence of Freud. "Give me back the image of my beautiful Goddess" as Andreyev says in "He Who Gets Slapped", was not the cry of a crass materialist. His cosmic dream was to see the time when our civilization would be saved. He taught and believed unfailingly that life is love...
...jacket is quoted the following by a well known critic. "The most significant figure in English letters today probably one of the most important in the entire range of literature". This is pure tripe and Mr. Lawrence should not be made sport of in such a crass manne...
Mademoiselle Nitza Vernille was in the front rank of the dancers. Her many pearls we shall pass by, for what is a more pearl under the existing circumstances? Her performance had more of the aesthetic touch and less of the crass appeal than is generally found in shows of a like nature...
Harvard must always maintain the highest possiblt standard of liberal education; but it is crass provincialism for us to ignore the existence of other conceptions of a university's function. We fall in the quality upon which we base our pride in Harvard if we continue to think so lightly and remain in such profound ignorance as wt do now of the universities of the West. Unless we try to understand their efforts and problems we will fall equally in the service which we owe to the nation...
...part of class officers, carelessness or willful distortion of truth on the part of poll-watchers and count-takers, short-sightedness on the part of the election committee,--all will come in for a share of the blame. But no individual culprits may be named; the atmosphere of crass negligence which overlies the whole affair obscures the cause of the injustice which has been wrought...