Word: crass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little fellas" from harm, sturdily resists the temptations and blandishments of a bevy of Bad Examples. In hammering out his selfless philosophy of life, Sal learns through bitter experience to reject the cynical green applesauce of an opportunistic main-chancer (Thomas Carlin), and to sneer at the diesel-crass plutocracy of a trucking tycoon (Gene Lyons), who is the orphanage's most successful alumnus...
...nonresident British subject established by a two-year exile, Man-Without-a-Problem Coward (he will not have to pay the Inland Revenue taxes on income earned outside England if he stays away at least six months a year) blithely spirited himself back home, disdained to talk of crass cash: "I really do get rather bored. I find the talk about money rather vulgar. I am an artist...
While more than half the women felt that the executive wife could well undergo some company appraisal, most drew the line at anything so crass as an interview, favored more informal methods, e.g., dropping in at home. The dissent (45%) to even this moderate approach was surprisingly vehement. Said Mrs. Elizabeth Harvey, wife of the director of industrial relations for General Electric's Automotive Division: "This recent development is abhorrent to any sensible woman who desires to be a homemaker as opposed to a business appendage...
...Congratulations to Cartoonist Osborn [Jan. 28] for his jab at the atrociously crass '57 cars-following fast on the clashed colors of '56. Ugh! MARCIA MASCIA Port Chester...
...strong (Roman Catholic) faith and often violent (anti-U.S.) prejudice, Britain's Novelist Graham (The Quiet American) Greene, let one get the better of the other in a crass commercial assessment of the prospects of his new play, a psychological mystery drama due to open this week on Broadway. "Wouldn't it be a marvelous thing for The Potting Shed if only Cardinal Spellman could be persuaded...